5 Easy Steps to Finding More Time To Read as a Busy Parent
<p>Do you remember when you were 16 and you could read a 300-page book <em>in a weekend</em>? And you devoured the latest novels from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=candicewrites-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=09fbce1e2193d3b5d6557d78c63c1d6d&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=Dean+Knootz" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Dean Knootz</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=candicewrites-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=a6c5612353e5269b2261ce0968bbb752&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=Christopher+Pike" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Christopher Pike</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=candicewrites-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=0823bde204542e0df71bdae2e3265c7d&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=RL+Stine" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">R.L. Stine</a>. (I know I’m dating myself here with these authors.)</p>
<p>Or how your favorite space to be is wandering through a bookstore or library, carrying more books than you can read (or afford). I bet we’d bump into each other, right?</p>
<p>But now that you’re a parent, getting through a book is almost <em>impossible</em>. Because you can’t stay awake long enough to read more than a page at night since your baby keeps waking up every 2 hours.</p>
<p>Or when you do find a moment to read during the day, your kids decide to start an epic battle over the green truck no one cared about yesterday.</p>
<h1>But taking time to read as a parent is a form of self-care.</h1>
<p>So with some simple mindset shifts in how you look at your time and taking advantage of the time you have, <strong>you’ll reclaim the joy of reading again.</strong></p>
<h1>The steps to finding time to read when you have a baby or kids.</h1>
<h2>Gamify reading by signing up for a reading challenge.</h2>
<p>Whether you do this through <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>, with your local library, or at home, there’s <strong>something magical about making reading a game.</strong></p>
<p>When my daughter participated in the library’s summer reading challenge, they gave her a poster she colored in each time she finished 20 minutes. It was super motivating! Every day she’d ask how many books she could color in.</p>
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