This is Pediacast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is episode 417 for October 25th, 2018.

We're calling this one Family Literacy and Great Books for Every Age.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So a family literacy day is just around the corner on November 1st, and some are designating the entire month of November as Family Literacy Month, which makes a lot of sense because

traditionally, for many years now,

November has been a month for writing, and in particular, writing novels.

It's called Naino Rimo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month.

And the reason behind that initiative is this.

Many folks have a novel inside of them.

But what they lack is the discipline to sit down each and every day and to put words to paper.

So many hopeful authors for many years now start the month of November with a blank white page

and they commit to writing either a set number of words per day or they're

going to set for a certain number of minutes or hours every day. And they trudged through the month

of November writing day in and day out. Now some make it through the month. Others don't. Novels are

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