Vanessa Williams
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yes, he was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
And also another tip for a new parent, read to them every night.
Doesn't matter if they're infants, hold them in your hand and read to them.
My dad read to me all the way up until I was probably 12, like would come in at nighttime.
And we started with, you know, obviously reading.
nursery rhymes and, and fairy tales.
And we would discuss psycho cybernetics and I'm okay.
You're okay.
Back in the day, because it was an opportunity for us to kind of like talk about behavior and, and kind of unload, you know, and it was an amazing, amazing relationship.
And my, he did me and my, my brother, we, he was like story time and that was his contribution.
He would do that with my kids too.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he would start us.
That's how we started to learn to read.
And there was one, it was called Let Papa Sleep.
And I remember that was like our initial, you know, book time.
And that's how we would learn how to read.