Do You Know What Your Child Is Reading?
May 14, 2008 – 7:27 pmBy Tiffany Bradley That time of year is approaching when schools send home a list of recommended or required books for summer reading. Trusting parents often take these lists as blanket approval of a book’s quality and content and dutifully take their children to the local library or bookstore to start their summer reading. In our electronic world, adults are often so thrilled when children pick up a book to read that they don’t consider the content as they would another activity. Plus, today’s busy parents rarely have the time it takes to oversee or preview all the books their children read! Parenting a child who reads “above grade level” is wonderful until you realize books that are challenging in vocabulary and comprehension usually include situations which simply are not age appropriate. So what is your child reading and how do you know what the book is about? Several years ...