Susan Collins Quotes

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

I read to my kids every night.

I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.