When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I’m gonna read it to you.  — The Princess Bride

All of my kids have liked to be read to, and Boo loves it most of all.  I think at first it was the one-on-one attention, but now he enjoys reading along in the simpler books and helping to tell the stories.  There’s something absolutely golden about finding a quiet moment to read to a young kid who is paying attention.  Children who are read to will read to themselves, and that opens up an entire new universe for them.  Ten minutes of reading thrown in between brushing your teeth and turning off the bedroom light will pay off in spades later in their life.