Happy Father’s Day!
Here’s a feel-good daddy story from NPR: When Alice Ozma was a fourth-grader, she and her dad, Jim Brozina, made a pact to read together every night for 100 days. At the end of the 100 days, they didn’t want to stop reading together, so their nightly tradition continued until it was time for Ozma to head off to college.
For dad Jim, “the hardest part wasn’t maintaining the streak — it was ending it. Ozma was heading off to college at Rutgers, and it was time to bring the nearly nine-year tradition to a close. On the last night, Ozma chose to read from the same book they’d read for their first father-daughter reading: The Wizard of Oz. ‘That was the single hardest thing to do,’ Brozina recalls, ‘to read, choked up, tears in eyes — both of us. That was the most difficult, to stop it.’”
Ozma’s book The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared chronicles the reading relationship with her father. Both father and daughter encourage families to begin their own reading streaks.
