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The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
Sarah MacKenzie
4.31 AVERAGE
363 reviews for:
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
Sarah MacKenzie
4.31 AVERAGE
I devoured this book. Half parenting advice (told in the most down-to-earth and encouraging tone), and half delightful conversation about good books, this sweet read will help you love reading with your kids, from birth through the teen years. I will be revisiting this in the future.
An excellent defense of the value of reading aloud. Nothing earth shattering, but I love the way she was transparent about the challenges and realities of what it looks like to prioritize reading together as a family. I can't wait to try some of the suggestions on her book lists!
I loved much of this but found some of it repetitive. It is both inspirational and practical with tools for taking in to life.
This book is so inspiring! Her book recommendations are awesome! My favorite quotes from this book are:
“Their children may not remember the exact stories, plot lines, or characters of the books they shared during these times. Whether they remember the titles of the books they read together doesn’t even really matter. But I am certain of one thing: they will never forget that their momma read to them.”
“When we read with our kids, we step outside the noise, the hustle, the friction, and for just a few minutes, we are completely and totally present with them. That simple act can make even the hardest, most painful season of life just a bit sweeter.”
“By reading aloud with them, we help our kids understand that life will be difficult, perhaps more difficult than they can yet imagine, but that they—just like the heroes in the tales from their childhood—are capable of facing unimaginable hardship with heroic virtue. Story by story, they slowly realize that inside each of us dwells a hero.”
“Their children may not remember the exact stories, plot lines, or characters of the books they shared during these times. Whether they remember the titles of the books they read together doesn’t even really matter. But I am certain of one thing: they will never forget that their momma read to them.”
“When we read with our kids, we step outside the noise, the hustle, the friction, and for just a few minutes, we are completely and totally present with them. That simple act can make even the hardest, most painful season of life just a bit sweeter.”
“By reading aloud with them, we help our kids understand that life will be difficult, perhaps more difficult than they can yet imagine, but that they—just like the heroes in the tales from their childhood—are capable of facing unimaginable hardship with heroic virtue. Story by story, they slowly realize that inside each of us dwells a hero.”
A delightfully helpful book. Can't wait to put some of these ideas into practice in our home!
Fantastic! The titles she provides for different ages were great suggestions. Wish I’d had this book 10+ years ago!
What a warm and winsome vision for how reading aloud to your children can change the world. If you’re a parent, you’ll want to check out this book.
This book contains great read-aloud recommendations as well as compelling reasons to read aloud with your children and ways in which this can be done. However, there is an overarching Christian theme that was not mentioned on the back cover. I am Christian, but it seemed out of place. I wish the Christian elements were confined to their own chapter so the book would be more readable to those who do not share our faith. After all, she strives to make cross-cultural book recommendations. It would make more sense to write a book that would appeal to people from a variety of cultures and religions.
I loved the ideas about creating a "book club culture" in the home, and my to-read-to-the-kids list has several additions I'm looking forward to from the book lists toward the back of the book.
There were a handful of tips and tricks I picked up from this book that will work well for my child and our family. More than anything though, it inspired me to be more intentional about the books I do choose, to diversify what/how/when we read, and overall just sparked more passion to read. I would caution that while there are tips, tricks, and scientific evidence to back up the WHY, I found this mostly to be a great resource for recommendations on WHAT to read aloud.