Earlier today, I recorded and released a podcast where in I discussed why I believe helping

your child to become a good breeder by reading aloud when your child is young and also

by surrounding your child with high quality books and inspiring him as well as requiring

him to read those books is perhaps your simplest, most effective investment into the education

of your particular child and how it's easy but not easy to actually do it and yet it's

incredibly effective.

I talked at length, I gave some examples of book lists, etc.

After that show, I went back and I opened up my copy of Jim Trelea's book that I referenced

several times in that book, excuse me, in that show called the Read-A-Loud Handbook and

I was just struck by how good it is, how much cogent useful information it contains and

how well presented some of the arguments are and after looking through it, I felt

like I didn't do the topic of reading aloud justice.

This is something that I have talked about.

I've repeatedly said that perhaps one of the best things that you can do for your children

is to give your children the gift of a full-time mother, especially when your child is

young and that there's so much that can be done that will pay off in spades down the

road but I haven't presented a lot of the evidence for that and looking through Trelea's

book, I just noticed how wonderful it is and so what I'd like to do in this particular

episode is I'd like to unhurriedly read you a few excerpts from this really wonderful

book and present to you a couple of the very simple arguments and especially a couple

of the numerical calculations and some of the research associated with those calculations

as to why something is simple as reading aloud extensively to your children makes such

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