The 20-Minute-A-Day Campaign
Did you know that, according to a Department of Education survey about family reading habits, that most families read to their children for an average of 20 minutes a day on at least 3 days a week? No matter the ethnicity or income level, American parents and other members of our children's families are on the job! This is great news, but we can do better.
What about reading to your prenates, neonates, and 1- to 6-year old "lap-year" children for 20 minutes everyday? What about having the 7- to 11-year old "gap year" children read to you for 20 minutes every day? Even tweens and teens can get in on the act for 20 minutes every day! Books Before Birth and Beyond is inaugurating a campaign to get families to read together for at least 20 minutes every day.
Let's start the planning now. What works best for your family:
- 1o minutes in the morning with Dad and 10 minutes in the evening with Mom?
- 20 minutes after school with big sister?
- 20 minutes before school by Skype or phone with Aunt Ann?
- 20 minutes after school by Skype or phone with Uncle Bill?
- 10 minutes en route from soccer practice to piano lessons and 10 minutes from piano lessons to home again?
