Mother Reader

Modelling a love of reading: Encouraging my young readers through my own reading habits and love of the written word.

Do you want your children to be voracious readers? I don’t have too many expectations around my children and their education.

But I’ll admit it, I do!

I’m happy to go with the flow and follow their interests. I trust their individual learning processes and want for them to find their own callings and joys in their lives. But I’d also really like to raise readers. Children who grow up reading wonderful books, referencing stories and finding joy and comfort in familiar characters and dog eared pages.

Books have always played a heavy role in our home education and family home life in general (they are not seperate after all). We have done morning baskets* since my eldest was about 2 years old and my middle child was a baby. We have read to our children since they were in the womb. We have collected bookcases full of beautiful picture books and board books a…