Savvy Parenting : A Little Light Reading (Very Light, In Fact...) The Savvy Source for Parents

When did we make this distinction where reading is schoolwork, stories are for bedtime, and books are best for those who can be quiet and still? Sure, it's hard to befriend a character when you can't hear his story over the din, but reading isn't just for quiet, calming, cuddly times. A good story cracks you up, takes you by surprise, sticks in your mind, goes someplace you've never been, teaches you something a wee bit wild. Stories are as entertaining as climbing and playing princesses and running trains -- and you can't learn much about trees or castles or railroads without learning some facts or a story from something you read (or listen to).

Reading, fundamental as it is, is also just funny.

Mad Libs are reading -- or at least reading-related. Shel Silverstein is as much a pillar of the children's literary canon as Margaret Wise Brown is -- and Ms. Brown's works are plenty smirk-worthy themselves, actually. Books are just as goofy and silly and guffaw-inducing as that midsummer water balloon fight that had you all in hysterics just the other afternoon.

Join us as Being Savvy checks out the lighter side of reading, the fun stuff. Oh, you might want to take a bathroom break now; there's nothing funny about a story that makes you laugh so hard that even Mom has an accident!

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