Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (62265)	3/14/2002 3:54:42 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I have a couple of local organizations that I've looked into...Counseling and Educational Services and another local neighborhood organization that has reading tutoring program. I also found a national organization that works with pediatricians wishing to help with early preschool reading supplies and volunteers. reachoutandread.org It's been so long since I was involved with reading with young children, but I remember very well how much I enjoyed it. Just taking the time to read to children and getting books to them gives them a major leg up as they enter the educational system. I'm beginning to realize how much I've taken for granted the amount of print material I've always had at my immediate disposal when my children were small. So many families don't have that "luxury"...Yes we have libraries, but I think there is something inherently motivating about kids having their "own" books that makes them want to go back over and over...I remember as a small child my parents gave us a set of "classics and fairy tales and poetry" .....a ten volume set (still have it!) and I used to read those books over and over...literally for years until junior high. So not only do I think we need to concentrate on helping develop reading skills, we need to help with providing resources for the kids to "keep".