The Girl Effect

Are You Raising a Texter or a Reader?

We live in an amazing age of technology. Never before have we had so much information available at our fingertips (literally). We have the convenience of cell phones, laptops, video phones, instant messaging, texting, iPhones, email and more. If you ever have a question about anything you can Google it, and if you want to [...]

50 Ways to Get Children to Love Reading!

Make a love of reading be your most important education goal for your children. Children who love to read will excel in everything they do
Show your children that you value reading, don’t just tell them. Let them see you reading
Make reading a daily activity
Take outings to the bookstore
Give books as gifts
Always have time to read [...]

Book of the Month Club

Earn FREE books with the Book of the Month Club
An excellent way to promote a love of books with your children. Imagine their faces when the kid a package at their door with books just for them. They won’t be able to wait to read them. You’ll send a message to your children that reading [...]

Do You Know the 3 Steps to Fostering Lifelong Learning and Success?

If you are like most parents, you want the best for your child. You want them to grow into fully functioning, happy, fulfilled and successful adults. So how can you ensure that you’re doing those things today that can help to bring about the desired results? How can you even know what is is that [...]

15 Simple Ways to Encourage Your Child to Read

Research shows that the most criticial aspect to whether a child reads or not, and continues the habit into adulthood, is how the feel about reading. If they have negative associations with it, they will avoid it, and likely stop doing it once it is not ‘required.’
On the other hand, if they associate reading with [...]

Don’t Be a Lobster Parent

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rocks, has not instinct nor energy enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable hom to reach the [...]