Do you enjoy listening to audio books? I love to. I pop in my earphones while I do housework when the kids aren’t home. An hour or two later I barely know I’ve been working. My children (ages 4-17) enjoy them too. There is an abundance of age appropriate books available for download from sites like iTunes and Audible.com. The local library also has some to lend at no cost. We listen to audio books during long car trips or on rainy days, sometimes when we’re doing yard work, or at night in bed. I value the opportunity our technology has provided to get my kids to read (or listen) to book they otherwise would have passed on the shelf.
Our favorite? The Junie B. Jones series. Really! The main character of this series written by Barbara Park begins when the vivacious and brutally honest five-year-old starts kindergarten and follows her during the ups and downs of middle childhood. Junie B. ‘s brutal honest and vivid descriptions through the eyes of a child appeal to each one of us and we laugh, sometimes uncontrollably, as we listen to her stories together.
A few years back, a regularly carpooled the kids to school. It was a twenty minute drive each way, and the morning commute was especially quite as the kids slumped sullenly in the back seat. Oh, but on the mornings we had a good audio book playing on the radio, the kids were happier by the time I saluted them out of the car door.
No comments:
Post a Comment