I volunteer for an organization called Raising a Reader, a non-profit literacy organization that teaches families the importance of reading to a child from birt

I volunteer for an organization called Raising a Reader, a non-profit literacy organization that teaches families the importance of reading to a child from birth to age 5 in order to have them reading-ready for school. This is a very worthwhile cause. When my own children were born I took reading to them as a given and read to them every night, enjoying the cuddle time. When they became competent readers themselves, I would read the first chapter of a juicy book to them and they'd be grabbing the book from me like it was a piece of candy. The screens are ok, as long as you don't use them as a babysitter. We're in a technology age, so we can't ignore them. As parents, we need to teach our children a balance between screen time and other stellar activities like reading.