Thank you for sharing your experience. Similarly steemit has gifted writing and reading to me.
I also missed the early reading experience, I had no confidence with reading aloud in class. My spelling was terrible (still is) and the words would swirl and I would panic and struggle to speak, a contrast to my unruly behaviour that developed in its place to compensate.
I have made a specific effort to make an evening book a part of my children's evening settling, to them it is as much a part of getting ready for bed as bathing and brushing their teeth. For me, all those nurturing settling rituals were absent from my parents. Having a settling ritual is important, their joy of books, reading and writing is a wonderful bonus.
I have 10 years between my children's age's. My teenager is a brilliant writer (she struggled with reading and spelling when younger), but is now in the process of writing her own novel, she blows my mind. Her teacher recently reinforced my potentially bias views when he told me he feels he is editing a peers work rather than marking grade 8.
We have done the weekend prompts together a few times (unpublished just for fun), I proudly read mine, with a bit of a giggle, then my husband and I find ourselves picking our jaws up from the floor when she reads hers, which she then throws away and I retrieve it from the garbage. We read every night to her from 6 months old, until she was able to read to herself. Now she has her night light on close to midnight sometimes writing her own novel, she is 14.
Our 4 year old couldn't imagine going to bed without a book or 3, it is also a great ritual sleep trigger too. He is at the stage where you staple a dozen pages together, he draws a story, and proudly "reads it" aloud to anyone he can corner.
I joined steemit with no real plan and have found a passion for writing, and a plethora of inspiration in the amazing humble writers here.
Thank you all for your work. Recently I have not been well enough to write, I am reading and listening. I have caught up with @felt.buzz tiny Story and am working through @improv's novel. Both have blown my mind.
I intend to read them all. I have a limit to my energy, sometimes they are translated in audio form, maybe I will try that too.
This style of community, you may not always know who you reach and how you impact people.

please don't be discouraged by the numerical figure your posts generate, it does not represent your worth. Keep writing for you and for people like me and @whatisnew and many others.

My day is not full, but I see rainbows where I may see grey clouds when I get lost in the magic of steemit poetry and writing. Or humbled by being welcomed into lives shared by a stranger now friend in a county I will most likely never visit.
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