Opening a book will open up whole other worlds for children
Nothing puts the heart crossways in a mother or father like sudden, unexplained silence. If you’re the parent of a baby or toddler, a silence at the wrong time puts you on red alert.
The wrong time, for one young mother, being 7am. She expected chirping and chatter out of her two-and-a-half-year-old from about 7am, because that was the established pattern. By 7.30am, chirping and chatter would normally have yielded to a high-volume demand for parental action, which would have roused even her two older brothers, who, being male and teenage, sleep like the dead.
