Parents Hints & Helps

Parents are essential in raising children who will love to read and learn. We recommend three major ways in which parents can raise readers:

1. Be a reader yourself. Children emulate what they see, and your example will be powerful.
2. Read to and with your children. For young children, it is a great bonding activity. For older children, it can help keep the path to meaningful conversations open.
3. Attend book and learning-related activities. The Library has story times, programs, and museum passes. The Summer Reading Program will help keep children reading all summer long, giving them a leg up on reading when they return to school in the fall. And you will be making memories for and with your children that can last a lifetime.

Finally, be sure to check out our Parenting books in the Children’s Room at the Library, to help you better understand your children’s needs.

There are more resources here:

• https://www2.ed.gov/parents/read/resources/edpicks.jhtml
• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496346.pdf
• https://www.mass.gov/topics/early-childhood-education-care
• https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101-guide-parents
• https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/parents