I have always been a little bookworm, ever since I can remember I was that weird child who always had my head buried into some book wherever I went – whilst walking around the school, driving in a car, eating at a restaurant and even on holiday. There just was no better place to escape to than the pages in a book. That love for reading has been carried with me well into adulthood and it’s the one thing I wish to pass onto my children, because reading truly is one of the most important building blocks in life. It saddens me to see how little kids care about reading in the new technological era and as a teacher I see the impact and deal with the consequences of this on a daily basis, so when A was born I made it my mission to develop a love for reading in him from the get-go. I truly believe that when you make reading fun, a child’s imagination does the rest and it’s my goal to help my child find that in the pages of a book, you just need to find the right books. We make reading fun through bedtime stories where we read together or a new favorite is asking him to close his eyes while I read the story to him, and he then needs to try and imagine being the character on these adventures. We also enjoy book scavenger hunts around the garden and little picnics under a tree or in his teepee while we eat, laugh and read. There are so many adventures to be discovered, we just need to put aside a little time (and technology) to actually help them find them.