I read the headline to this article, "Messy House, Messy Mind:
The connections between kids, reading and an orderly home," immediately
closed my laptop and set out to clean the house. I sifted through the
books and stacks of paper on my desk, cleared out the piles of artwork
waiting to be hung or tossed, found a home for every tiny Littlest Pet
Shop animal and accessory that dot our household landscape and swept an
arm over the coffee table to rid our home -- finally -- of months-old
magazines and outdated catalogs.
I didn't want our messy house
to get in the way of my almost four-year-old's march toward literacy.
Especially since our home's messiness traces back directly to me.
Only when everything appeared ordered did I go back and actually read the damn article.
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