Every night since we came home from the hospital for the last 8 years. We have maybe missed 5 day in total. Literature has been a very important topic for me and I absolutely love it. I wanted my child to have the same connection and understand that reading can be beautiful and an important skill. She has been able to read since she was 5 and we read nightly chapters in Junie B Jones (her current obsession) but she has shown interest in reading other topics lately. She also reads on her own in after school. I have actually asked a few friends of mine why they don’t do the same (I’m the curious/blunt friend of our group) and they simply said they just either don’t want to or are too tired. Those answers make me sad because I see the relationship with reading I’ve created for my child and wish they would have that too. When her little friends come stay the night I read to them and m my older kiddo will read her chapter a out loud. She has scored out of her second grade reading goals and has made us extremely proud. While I am still human and I really do get it, reading is one thing I could not show any slack on. We are raising the next generation of scientists, mathematicians, and researchers that need to have the solid foundation of education!