PARENTING

Discover How To Create The Family Life You Dream Of, Literally

Reading aloud to your children makes a world of difference

Kelly Gawitt
The Parenting Portal
8 min read5 days ago

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Mothers have a problem. Every one of us wants to raise an amazing family but we don’t have a clear path on how to do that. We have some ideas and we try like heck but when we take a step back and look at our families, are we seeing what we want to see? Do we see happy, thriving children? Or do we see children who are more often:

  • bored
  • grumbling
  • disobedient
  • selfish
  • mean

What can you do to turn things around? Is there something you can do differently?

After twenty years of raising my own family, I have found plenty of things that did not work for us such as lecturing, giving them busy work, and yelling at them. Thankfully I’ve also discovered a handful of things that did work for our family. And there’s one thing that seems to work like magic for ALL families and that my friend, is reading aloud.

You heard me right — reading. I learned how to leverage high-quality literature to help create the close-knit and loving family I wanted.

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Kelly Gawitt
The Parenting Portal

I believe what coffee and a walk in the woods can't fix, a heart-to-heart talk with Jesus and a little whiskey can. Married, mom, and freelance writer from CT