Hey there! You are listening to the lazy genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm

here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the

things that don't. Today is episode 268, 10 summer reading ideas for your kids.

Last week we talked about finding your own summer reading rhythm as a grown-up,

whether you're home in the summer or just existing like the rest of the year.

And today I want to talk about some specifics for kids if you have those. Now I

know that I have a lot of romanticism attached to kids in summer reading

personally. I want them to like lounge for hours, reach for books over their

video game controllers and excitedly tell me about all the books they've read

that totally were surprising and they were not another graphic novel. Good

gracious, but that is just not realistic like at all. So instead of trying to

manufacture this romantic idea, I want to just focus on what matters. And for me

and likely for you, that is our kids have books and reading as part of their

lives. That's it. The regularity, the kinds of books, the routines, the tracking,

whether or not there are rewards, all of that is individual. But ultimately what

matters is that our kids have books and reading as natural parts of their

lives. So how can we do that? Now at first I was going to share like how to

create a reading routine or rhythm with your kids, but honestly like a lot of

kids are less into that, right? They don't have a routine really. Plus summer

schedules vary from family to family and kid to kid. So instead of an overall

plan, which we do love, which we do love, I want us to just start small with 10

ideas, just 10. You can do one, you can do 10, you can try a couple and then leave

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