Hello, hello, welcome to the Read Aloud Revival podcast. This is the show that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections

with your kids through books. I'm your host, Sarah McKenzie. I'm the author of a couple of books

teaching from rest and the Read Aloud family and a growing collection of picture books.

Here's my question for you today. What would happen if you decided to be your child's mentor rather than their teacher?

What if you awakened their wonder and curiosity so that they became the kind of people

who thirst for knowledge and understanding?

Well, today on this show, I'm sharing a favorite episode of mine from a few years ago with

Sally Clarkson, where we discussed these very questions.

Sally is a dear friend of mine, and I know her work is such an inspiration to so many of us.

In this episode, she shares how we can inspire our kids to become lifelong readers and learners right in our own homes.

Sally, welcome back to Read Aloud Revival.

I love being here.

We've had so much fun.

So basically, listeners, what happened to

Sally and I were chatting for her podcast on At Home with Sally, and we wanted to keep going.

So we are going to keep going here on the show. But if you want to hear the beginning of our

conversation, and I highly recommend it, so inspiring for anybody who's parenting or teaching

children right now, then you want to go listen to that episode.

And we'll put a link to it in the show notes as well.

Sally, before we keep going with our conversation, maybe you can tell my listeners a little bit about your life and work and your family.

I live in Colorado sometimes and overseas sometimes because I have four of my five adult children, including my son-in-law, who are studying in the UK or are working in the UK in England and Scotland. And two of them are finishing their PhDs there. My daughter Sarah finished her Masters of Theology in Oxford.

And Nathan, my son, is a film producer and actor, and he also writes books too in New York City.

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