The Bloggathon is Well Underway

The Jerry Begly Bloggathon 2010 is moving right along. Thanks for joining me. I’m celebrating National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com with a post every two hours, through the 16th of May! What is really fun about this week, is that I get to celebrate, by offering you an opportunity to read my children’s book entitled “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” www.jerrybegly.com/tooth. As I sit here posting this, my son, Caleb is reformatting the 3rd Edition of the book which will be sent to the printers today. It freaks me out that we can edit and format the book, up here high in the Rockies completely off the grid, send it through the airwaves, and get it printed in the Good Old USA within a few weeks.

A Supernova of Benefits

By now, you know how much I am a believer in reading to children. www.bookweekonline.com . The benefits of reading to your own kids . are a little bit like winning the lottery…only better. Let’s start with the obvious and oft stated benefits: Quality family time, making good memories, development of grammar, and even having a child get used to sitting still for periods of time. Let me take you much farther than that. Join my family as we burst out of here with a supernova of benefits from reading to our children…