"When I say to a parent, "read to……" — Mem Fox
"When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate."
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23 Quotes by Mem Fox
Mem Fox has 23 quotes on this site.
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If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and…
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
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Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length,…
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Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time…
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I have very little patience with children.
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Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours…
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If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer,…
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If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come…
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As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
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Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
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I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few…
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I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
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