Leapfrog
Even though I blog about mindless television and working too much, I truly love and cherish reading. I read magazines and newspapers daily, devour books when I can, and read to my four-year-old daughter daily. Equally important, I am the proud sister of a public high-school teacher and her principal husband. Therefore, I jumped at the chance to work with LeapFrog to promote reading across the country.
The good folks at LeapFrog are working with the National Education Association (NEA) to promote National Reading Month which is held in March. LeapFrog and the NEA created the Leapfrog 1 Million Reading Hours campaign to encourage families to spend more time reading together, with the national goal of reading for 1 million hours this month. Here’s how you can help us reach our goal.
If your family is like ours, you already spend time reading to your child daily. This month, we want everyone to pledge reading at least 10 minutes every day to help achieve our goal of reaching 1 million reading hours, all to underscore the importance of shared reading time with your family. You can pledge to read to your child for 10, 20 or 30 minutes each day, and you’ll receive a printable certificate, reading calendar and coupons good for discounts on LeapFrog products at your favorite retailer or online at Amazon.
Leapfrog, showing dedication to the cause, is offering one lucky LTV Mom reader a LeapFrog TAG Reading System with 5 amazing TAG books along with an expanded-memory LeapFrog TAG Reading System with 10 books to donate to your local library. My family has a TAG Reading System, and we love it. It would be an honor to share this gift with you. Here’s how you can enter:
- Visit the 1 Million Reading Hours site and pledge to read at least 10 minutes a day to your child.
- Return to LTV Mom and leave a comment below telling me how much time you pledged to read each day.
- I will randomly select from everyone who left a comment, and Leapfrog will send one winner the LeapFrog Prize pack, along with the donation for your local library.
If you want to increase your chances to win, you also can enter the following ways:
- Blog about the LTV Mom giveaway and leave a comment with the link to your post on this site.
- Follow me on Twitter (@StacyLibby) and leave a comment on LTV Mom with your Twitter handle.
- Add LTV Mom to your blogroll and leave a comment with the URL of your blog.
Leave a separate comment for each entry and make sure at least one of your entries contains a valid e-mail address so I can find you. This giveaway will be live until March 31, 2009. I will randomly select the winner from all the comments on April 1.
I admire and respect LeapFrog’s efforts to work with its community to promote reading. And I really can’t believe the generosity toward LTV Mom readers. Happy reading!
– LTV Mom
Just trying to squeeze in some television between mothering, working and crashing.
This is a great thing that LeapFrog is doing and I am glad you are involved. Our little angels are like sponges and it is up to us to feed their curiosity and imagination with wonderful books.
My husband and I pledge 20 minutes of reading a night for my 2 little girls.
On a separate note, thank you for blogging… I love reading it!
Rima B.
We, too, have a LeapFrog Tag. They ARE really great! I’ve seen my littlest one run the pen over non-TAG books hoping for something. It’s really cute. I’m pledging 20 minutes for my 2 little boys and my oldest is pledging 20 minutes of his own reading time
Thanks Stacy!
Junella
This is a wonderful idea! I spend a lot of time in the 2nd grade classroom and it’s apparent (and very sad) the students who don’t read every night w/a parent.
We pledge to read 20-30 minutes w/our son each night and 2 books for our daughter. In mommy time, that’s either 10 minutes or an hour depending on her **sparkling** personality, multiplied by water brakes. Apparently, reading is thirsty work!
Stacy this is wonderful! We love reading to Hannah and it really gives me such a kick when she runs into her room grabs a book and sits on the couch waiting for me to read it to her! Sometimes I even catch her trying to “read” to her “babies”!!!
This is wonderful! We pledged reading at least 10 minutes per night. I think it’s usually 15-20 minutes because my daughter usually asks us to read “one more book please”. How can you say “no”? I was thinking about getting her this LeapFrog Tag for her upcoming birthday and this promotion makes it an easier gift choice.
Stacy -
How COOL!!! Thanks for sending me the link!
As a Children’s Librarian at a Public Library and a mom to 2 kids, I know how important it is to read to children each and every day. In our house, it’s a minimum of 10 minutes daily with some days recording over an hour total. It’s people like you encouraging early literacy, and parents who practice what has been “preached” that help make our children’s future limitless.
Keep up the great effort!
Missie
Hi Stacy, Why the heck not? I can’t imagine NOT reading at least 10 minutes a day to your child.
Hi Stacy! what an awesome program! I will pledge to read for at least 10 min. per day to Nia - although it may be in several snippets (the attention span of a 9-month old is limited) hehehe - gotta love those little colors and first words books!
Thanks Stacy! 
Of course I’ll pledge to read to my little guys daily! This is a great idea, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than reading to my son… One of my favorite parts about reading to him is that often, he reads back! Love it, thanks for sharing with me!!! thanks Stacy!
What a great cause!!! Leapfrog products have been in our house for 7 years now and the TAG system looks like a perfect new one to try. I love reading, and so far, it looks like both kids will too. I pledge to read 20 minutes a day to my son and 10 minutes a day to my little one. Hopefully, with the books he reads to himself and the ones he reads to his little sister too, we’ll blow this pledge away. Thanks for spotlighting this!
I pledged to read 10 minutes each to Jack, Katie, and Joey. Thanks for encouraging reading to kids. It is such an important vehicle to create confident readers in kids. And what a wonderful time to have WITH your kids!
This is wonderful, I work with an afterschool program and we read at least 20 mins. daily, some on their own but mostly as a group. This is awesome!!!!!
Love your blog! It’s a balance of fine, literary witticism and not-so-subtle sarcasm. I really enjoy reading all of the posts. Keep up the good work!