To the Mothers in Zion: Read to Your Children

This is part three of my ongoing feature of President Benson's address to mothers.

"Read to Your Children. Third, mothers, take time to read to your children. Starting from the cradle, read to your sons and daughters. Remember what the poet said:

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be—
I had a mother who read to me.
(Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother.”)

You will plant a love for good literature and a real love for the scriptures if you will read to your children regularly."

Ezra Taft Benson, To the Mothers in Zion, address given at a fireside for parents, 22 February 1987.