Nancy Young

Well, I have tears in my eyes again now with you saying that.

I'm truly honored to be in New Zealand supporting educators, parents, anybody who's involved.

There's such a huge community of people involved in literacy instruction, supporting children in learning to read and write to the best of their ability.

And really, it's so exciting for me to

know that people are listening to my messages and that all my work and efforts are helping people.

Well, as a parent, I think...

And having worked with many parents, parents start to see signs.

Some parents will see signs that their children are starting to read much earlier than they expected.

And that was my case with my own children.

But also, I didn't know what I know now back then.

And I just thought, oh, this is great.

They're starting to learn to read.

And I really didn't realize that they were so advanced so early.

At the same time, as parents whose children...

might have difficulties once they get to school, have often seen the signs too.

They'll say, you know, one of my children was reading early on their own.

My other child avoided books.

when I try to just, you know, point out words, avoided those, and they will see the signs really early before school often.

And then what they're hoping for those for whom it's more difficult, they're hoping, well, once they get to school, everything will be fine because the school will teach them how to read.

Just as those parents whose children are advanced learners,