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by: Jennie Nash  List Price: $19.95 Price: $2.49 You Save: $17.46 (88%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 028.55 EAN: 9780312315344 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0312315341 Label: St. Martin's Press Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: August 23, 2003 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Studio: St. Martin's Press Accessories:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: What were my kids born to do? That is the question I hope to help them answer. And because reading is the thing I love most, it's only natural for me to hope it will become something they love, too...The trouble is that reading is a particularly slippery passion to want to pass along because it's a skill most parents would agree their children have to master, to one degree or another. --from Raising a Reader Can passion be passed along from parent to child? Can you, in other words, make someone love baseball, ballet or books? Of course you can't - but that doesn't stop parents from trying. Jennie Nash was one of those parents - a parent so obsessed about getting her kids to read that her desire sometimes strayed into desperation; her hope often became an obsession; and instead of helping, her resolve got in the way. In the end, she found that, like so many of the things we do as parents, passing along a passion for reading happens in the push and pull of digging in and letting go, day in and day out, both because of and in spite of our efforts. Nash shares stories and misadventures from the years when her young daughters were learning what it meant to have a relationship with words--and she was learning to let them. She reminds us how the magic moments happen in their own sweet time, by being together in the presence of good books and seeing each child as unique. Each chapter of Raising a Reader ends with personal, practical tips and games that spring straight from the narrative. A comprehensive index discusses many of the books Nash has enjoyed with her children, providing a year's worth of titles for parents and their children to explore. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Please get the author some chemical-balancing pills!The concept of this book is good. Whether you have always loved reading, or have come to love books more as an adult, we all hope our children will share this love, so anything offering tips on this sounds great. But this fally severely short, via the obvious personality disorder of the author. In Chapter 2, she relays a story wherein she punished her TWO YEAR OLD for ripping a book's page. She went off on the kid like a lunatic and REMOVED EVERY SINGLE BOOK FROM THE CHILD'S ... Read More Rating:  - Worth reading for any parent of young childrenTeaching a child to read, and getting that child to like reading, can be one of the most frustrating, and heartwarming, jobs for any parent. This book looks at one family's journey through such a process. One of a parent's biggest wishes for their child is that they find something about which they are passionate, something on which they can build a life. For the parent, there is a fine line between passion and obsession, a line that is easy to cross. It's hard to instill a love ... Read More Rating:  - Good tips, but...I'm also a bookaholic mom, so I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, I found the author's message in conflict with her actions and had a hard time getting past that. This book presents itself as a guide on how to pass along your passions without being overbearing or minimizing your child's other interests. Nash wants to be able to do this almost as desperately as she wants her daughters to find the same meaning in reading as she has. Both are admirable goals, but the pushy tone pushed me away. ... Read More Rating: - a must read for moms, dads, and grandparents!!I LOVED THIS BOOK!! as a bona-fide bookaholic mom who wanted more than anything to pass on my great love of books to my own children, this book completely and totally hit home. besides being an utterly charming and enjoyable read, it also has many good parenting/reading tips as well as lists of choice books. i recommend it highly! Rating: - A Deep Breath & Big Hug for Parents of Beginning ReadersFirst it's talking, then walking, then potty training. Being a parent is all to often about comparing our kids and their accomplishements to other kids and theirs. When you're little ones start school things heat up even more as you compare their academic achievements and wonderdramatically if they are smart and if you can make them smarter. It's a vicous cycle -- and it can take all the fun out of learning to read, which arguably is one of life's greatest pleasures and rightfully should be a time of fun ... Read More 
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