Best Way To Grow Successful Kids

Shh! I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Something that will shake up the schoolhouse. Kids who love to read at an early age will fly through elementary, middle, and high school. They'll be so well-read that they might even be able to skip college. Now, before you roll your eyes, or go all bat shit cray-cray, let me clarify myself: I'm not saying that kids shouldn't go to college. Is your child ready for a mountain of student loans, a closeted addiction to Adderall, a growing escape called binge drinking, or that pesky HPV infection? All I'm saying is that for some reason your kid skips college they might still be able to make a very good living. Just be prepared that their backup plan requires you to be rich.

Let me pause for a moment. I originally ran this blog in December of 2015. It was wildly successful, but the message is precisely the same. Now, the next paragraph, however, will give some historical reference to what was going on at the time.

Getting our kids to love reading starts with the often inconvenient habit of actually having to parent. It takes sitting down and reading to them. Reading to them with regularity. Specifically, every night. It means moms, and some dads will have to wait for all of 30 minutes before they can sit down on the bathroom towel on the couch with Channin Tantum as he busts out his role in Magic Mike. I'll go out on a limb and say there are others who care less about that and more about how Kim got her kid canonized. Yeah, the latest variation to her gene pool has been named, Saint.

Unfortunately, as a parent, it's far too easy to be lazy. It's easy to give in to the temptation of foregoing storytime for another form of entertainment. Why wouldn't be? Look, there are so many times I don't feel like doing it. But, Dora does. And, what she can get done in ten minutes what takes me twenty. Thank you, mía.

The reality is that I ulterior motives for getting my kids to love reading. Reading will allow them to manage lifelong hardships they have no idea are coming. Like the fact, they're not getting that iMac and a TV in their room, ever. And they can just forget about any heels they so desperately want. That's what happens when your mom has a background in sports medicine. Never mind a dad who refuses to have his emerging tween and teenage daughters see on social media to explore Netflix and chill.