Patricia Forde

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460 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

Patricia Forde’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Pat Kenny Show · Children's Reading Has Gotten Worse Since Covid · 14 Jun 2026 podcast
And the experiences children have in those first four or five years last forever.
I like to think about all art as something you should fall over.
You shouldn't have to go looking for it.
So with children in the house, I think it's really a good idea to leave books where they can find them, leave them on the kitchen table.
But maybe even more important than that is let them see you reading.
know if you're not reading children imitate what they see and as they get to that crucial age where we see them stopping reading at 12 or 13 on the cusp of kind of young adulthood they are looking to adults to see what they do later on it'll be they look at adults and they won't want to do what they're doing but at that age they still want to imitate what adults are doing or maybe older siblings so trying to get the whole family involved
let children see older people reading.
The Claire Byrne Show · Author and former Irish Children's Laureate Patricia Forde · 13 May 2026 podcast
Thank you, Clare.
It's great to be here.
I find it very worrying for parents.
I think I feel really sorry for parents of young children at the moment.
I think they feel under terrible pressure not to have their children on screens.
And yet the whole world is on a screen all around them.
It's unnatural, including the parents.
So very slow to lecture people about being on screens and their children being on screens when we're all on screens.
Yes.
But I did feel very strongly when I was laureate in ANOG that we, the book community, have to step up.
And by book community, I mean the parents of small children and their teachers and the writers and the librarians.
We have to compete.
It's no good saying, oh, mine won't read.
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