Allie Beth Stuckey

It's just a bunch of sounds that someone made.

meaningful through a linguistic construct maybe that's the more sophisticated way to say that reading doesn't really matter or just like the simple it's boring or it's okay if my kid doesn't like reading or i don't like reading my kid will be good at other things they won't need it anyway wrong wrong reading is more important than soccer it is more important than any extracurricular your child will need their brain to think far longer than they will use their legs to score goals

Cultivate in your child a love of reading and a discipline of reading.

A second reason is theological, specifically for the Christian.

Unlike Buddhism, Christianity does not place a premium on silence or the emptying of the mind.

Christianity is a word-based faith.

You go all the way back to the beginning.

God spoke the universe into existence.

He didn't have to.

He could have used any mechanism or no mechanism at all to create the world, but he used words.

He used language.

He dictated all of creation, including the creation of man and woman who were made in his image.

He spoke to Noah.

He spoke to and through Moses.

As if appearing in a burning bush wasn't enough, God spoke to Moses as a burning bush, through the burning bush.

Then God not only gave Moses the law...

He also said, I have written these things to you for your instruction.

He wanted to pass them down through the reading and the telling and the memorization of the law.

God spoke to and through all the prophets whose prophecies were written and read.

He sent an angel to speak to Mary.