Supernova numbers 6 and 7. Our sixth child has an imagination that really took off. He’s only 5 years old, but he showed me a catalog the other night. In it he pointed out all of the cool things he’s love to have. Not video games, or electronic gadgets. He wanted the Space suit, with helmat and boots. He wanted the jet pilot suit with helmet . He likes excavators, trains, trucks, bulldozers, cowboys, and swords. The other day, he came up to me completely duded up like the Lone Ranger. “Whadda ya think, Dad?” he asked. “Well,” I replied. “I feel very safe with you around,” I said. “Dad, read me this book”, is something I hear from him all of the time. It’s great.

Our 7th child is only 2 years old. He practically walks around with a book in his hand. His vocabulary is really good, and he’s following in the footsteps of his siblings. We are having a blast with that little stinker. One benefit of reading that I haven’t mentioned, is that your children will begin to talk like adults sooner and will not fall into that annoying type of “baby talk” that I hear so many children use. I never thought much about it until people started telling me “your children talk so mature”. Then I started noticing how much I disliked the “baby talk” of many children. So read to your kids a lot. And don’t talk “down” to their level. You’ll be rewarded with mature speaking kids.