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There are many indispensable things that you have to do as a parent if you want to raise intelligent, articulate, and interesting children. You need to make sure that they have plenty of stimulation, regular bedtimes, and three square meals a day. You need to make sure that they have all of the love and attention that they need, and a shoulder to cry on when they need that as well. Most importantly, however, you need to read your children stories. Reading children's stories to them every night is one of the most important tasks that a parent can perform. Childhood, after all, is when a lifelong love of reading begins. Without kids stories, this can never happen.

In my family when I was growing up, my parents loved to read the children stories. We read all kinds of interesting stories, from the scholastic books that we got from the book club, to classics that my parents still had from their childhood. My favorite kids stories were the fantastic ones. I loved knights and dragons, faraway places and adventures. I even began to write my own children story when I was entering second grade, and soon became quite good at it. If not for the children stories that I had read as a young one, in fact, I might not have become a writer in my professional life.

Of course, although it is great when your kids get excited about literature, it is also important not to push them too hard or at too young an age. My parents wanted me to enter my children stories and contests. Although I wanted to please them and to gain recognition, I was scared to death. When my first childrens story did very poorly, not getting a contest win, I was devastated. For about six months, I wouldn't even write anymore. My parents tried to tell me that my children stories were good, and that the people who judged the contest just didn't know what they were talking about, but it was to no avail.

The most important thing for parents to do is to treasure their childrens story. Kids have all their lives to try to win contests and get recognition, but they don't have that long to be kids. Without the opportunity to relax and explore as a child, they will not grow up in to comfortable, confident adults. Let them enjoy making children stories. There is time enough for awards later in life.