We do a lot of things wrong at our house, but this is one thing that's going well so far. Our sons are learning that books are valuable tools, and great fun besides.
The secret?
We've made a point of showing them how we use books everyday. It mostly amounts to thinking out loud. "I think I'm going to look in this cookbook to see how long I should cook the chicken tonight," I might say. Or" I think I need to check the baby book to find the best way to take the baby's temperature."
Of course, this means you have to use a book for those things, rather than Google. But even turnign to the computer counts, if you point out to the child that you're reading the answers. I don't mean giving them a lecture about "this is the importance of reading." I mean simply saying: "I don't know why Mars is red. Let's go read about it on the computer!"
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