Advantages of Having a Pet

Keagan is now reading chapter books independently, but he needs some encouragement to actually sit down and read. He would much rather be outside moving than sitting inside with a book. So I came up with the idea of Keagan reading to Maybelle.
It's like animal-assisted therapy except instead of a dog, we have a cat, and the patient is not the child but the parent! I don't think I could handle a second go-around in all 46 books of the Magic Tree House series, but Maybelle handles the nightly adventures just fine.

So far it has worked like a charm.