This episode may contain explicit language.

This is Karen Feeding.

We're three friends with kids who get together every week to talk life, swap advice,

and keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful thing called parenting.

I'm Elizabeth Newcamp.

I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.

I'm the mom to Henry

who's 14, Oliver who's 12, and Teddy who's 9. We live in Honolulu, Hawaii. I'm Zach Rosen.

I make another podcast that's called Weirdly Helpful, and I'm Dad to Noah, who's 8, and

Ami who's 5. We live in Detroit. Hey, I'm Lucy Lopez. I share a substack with Elizabeth. It's called

Best Mom Friends Forever. I'm Mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery who's 13, and we live in Miami,

Florida. We're here to talk about the ups, the downs, and everything in between when it comes to

parenting. And every week, we answer your questions. We share our own parenting triumphs and

fails and trying to make this feel like the kind of conversation you have with your friends.

And today we're talking all about summer reading. We're going to be joined by Katie Day Good

and inspired by a tweet we saw where she's paying her kids to read. We're going to talk all about how we get our kids to read, what they're reading this summer, and some advice on how you can follow along.

Welcome back.

We're joined now by Katie Day Good.

She's a media educator and researcher and an associate

professor at Calvin University. She's also the author of Bring the World to the Child,

Technologies of Global Citizenship and American Education. Katie, welcome to the show.

Hi. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming, Katie. Since summer vacate is just around the corner, this is a really good time to talk about reading and balancing all the other polls for our attention in the summer and beyond.

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