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"Mommy, can you read to me?"

Some do voices -- we've been known to do whole productions, with each family member taking a role! (Sometimes when you get tired of the same story every night for a week, you have to be a little creative!)

What do you do to make family reading time more fun for younger kids, or kids with short attention spans? Come join us at "Reading and Rambling Moms," and put in your two cents!

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Permalink Reply by Mary Hennessey on July 9, 2009 at 5:47pm

We read to our kids in bed, usually after prayer time. We have a captive audience! I would suggest a book that has wide appeal and cliff hangers at the end of every chapter. "The Wheel on the School" is one such book. My kids from age 14-6 all loved that one. Now it doesn't really matter what I read, they all love to listen. I think it has to be a wonderful family time for all of us.

A few years ago, my husband read to the kids a rather advanced children's Bible - a page or two at a time. Then he would close the book and give clues while my children guessed which Biblical character he was thinking of. This has come to be called "Bible Guessing Game". Consequently, my children know their Bible very well. Even my older grown children fondly remember all the people in the Bible they got to know with their dad.