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Moms Talk: Reading Rainbow

Our Moms Council discusses just how to get kids into reading. Should parents push, and if so, how hard?

Each week in Moms Talk, our Moms Council of experts and smart mothers take your questions, give advice and share solutions.

Moms, dads, grandparents and the diverse families who make up our community will have a new resource for questions about local neighborhood schools, the best pediatricians, 24-hour pharmacies and the thousands of other issues that arise while raising children.

Here's this week's question, provided by Oswego Patch Editor Steven Jack:

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With school starting back up, do you worry about your child's reading level? At what age should you start turning your kids on to reading? And what if they don't take to it? Should parents push their kids into becoming readers, or does that risk turning them off to books altogether?

Join our Moms Council (Amy Perry, Steph Motenko, Liz Spillane and Tiffany Prysmiki) in the comments below.

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Note: Future Moms Talk questions will come from the Moms Council. If you're interested in joining, let editor Andre Salles know at andre.salles@patch.com.


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