Today is a good time to commit to being a reader because reading does something good for the world. My children grew up watching PBS. This means they heard things like, “take a look it’s in a book, a reading rainbow” and “having fun isn’t hard if you’ve got a library card.” From an early age I wanted them to read and to develop a love of reading. It wasn’t until they were a little older that I taught them that reading was powerful because it does something good for the world.