4/07/2011

Warning! Books Can Be Dangerous!

How important is reading to you?  To your children?  To our future?
Starting in childhood with the school library and the bookmobile that came around the neighborhood in summers, and continuing through the present, books have been my loyal companions, my fellow travelers to new lands, cohorts sharing many exciting adventures, food for the brain and balm for the soul.

They are cutting so many school programs these days. Can you imagine if they cut reading programs?

My daughter Lisa (many of you know her story) is a teacher, and is in the process of finishing her Master’s Program in Moderate Special Needs Education.  For one of her classes, she is working on a big research project about childhood reading, and how it impacts adult reading habits.  She has created a short  (it took me less than 5 minutes), anonymous online survey to gather data.

Will you give Lisa your input about reading?  Please take a few minutes to complete the survey yourself, and ask your friends and family to take it too.

The deadline is Friday, April 15.  Yes, I know some of you have something else due that day, but this will be a lot more fun.  And I know Lisa will be very grateful.

Here’s the link to the survey:

Reading Survey 



This is a cross-post, also appearing on my creative non-fiction blog, PattiKen and the Muses - Home Away From Home.

9 comments:

  1. Survey: clicked and completed.

    Thanks for spreading the word on this, Patti.

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  2. Thanks Mom for posting. And thank you to anyone who is willing participate. Your help is so appreciated!

    Lisa

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  3. did it last night...its a quick one everybody...so go do it...

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  4. Hi Patti. yeh very important although I don't read as much as I should, I've always been one to encourage it to my kids an have always read when they were little. One is a bookworm, the other barely reads more than instructions on how to bleed brakes! No worries, I'll do the survey.

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  5. Done. Love that it was powered by Survey Monkey.

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  6. Did it! You're right...it was a snap.

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  7. Did it and got to thinking about how reading has enriched my life. Now that I'm retired and can structure my own time, I get to read to my heart's content. Every Day. I read to my daughter when she was little and now she reads to her children daily. All of us value the world available to us through books. How wonderful and brava to your daughter!

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  8. Thank you all who participated thus far. I have 138 surveys as of today to use for my research project. I couldn't have done it without your help.

    Lisa

    PS Thanks for posting, Mom.

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Thoughts? I would love to hear from you.