Tonight, 6PM local — Reading To Connect Day is here 📚💕

It’s happening. Families around the world are already gathering — and tonight at 6PM your local time, it’s your turn.

Reading To Connect Day™ was born from something simple: me and my son Aidyn choosing to read for connection over performance. That choice has grown into proclamations from cities and counties, support from authors, and families across the world saying yes to pausing together.

In this short episode, Aidyn and I share exactly what to do tonight, why it matters, and how to join the movement.

Key Topics:

What Reading To Connect Day™ is (and isn’t)

How to join in at 6PM local — no rules, no pressure

Simple ways to post and share your moment so other families feel encouraged

Gratitude for our giveaway partners, authors, and proclamations already in place

Why reading together builds connection, not performance

Links:🔹 Enter the giveaway: ReadingToConnect.com/Day🔹 Share page + graphics: ReadingToConnect.com/Day/Share-RTC-Day📬 Contact: quinn@readingtoconnect.com

Announcing the first-ever Reading To Connect Day™

I didn’t plan to create a holiday.

I just wanted families to feel safe again—to pause, not perform. To read like it mattered beyond the reading. And when I started sharing our story, something happened.

Parents from everywhere started joining in. Not for a program. Not for a prize.

For a moment.

In this episode, I’m announcing something we’ve been building toward all along—Reading To Connect Day. It’s not a trend. It’s not a hashtag. It’s a return. And this time, it’s happening together.

Key Topics:

- Why “just one moment” might be the most powerful thing we offer

- How a late-night scheduling push revealed a deeper purpose

- The shift from performance-based reading to legacy-based connection

- What happens at 6PM in every time zone on the last Sunday in August

- How you can be part of a global pause—without needing to perform

Links:

🔹 Reading To Connect Day Info + Share PageEverything you need to join (or invite someone else to)

📬 Contact: quinn@readingtoconnect.com

For Some, It’s Deeper Than Being TiredWhy one wrong math answer made her stop reading to her son.

She helped him with his math.She got it wrong.It became his lowest grade of the year.So she stopped reading with him.

It wasn’t even a reading moment. But it made her feel like her voice didn’t matter—and that maybe she was holding him back.

This episode isn’t about math. It’s about what we’ve done to reading.And why tired is often just code for something deeper.

Key Topics:

The invisible shame many parents carry when it comes to reading

How we’ve trained families to believe reading is academic, not relational

What gets lost when we make reading about scores instead of story

Why I created The Listening Room—and what it’s really for

A personal moment I didn’t expect to uncover on air

Links:

🔹 What Do You Need Right Now? A quiet room for parents who feel far from readinghttps://readingtoconnect.com/what-do-you-need

🔹 ENGAGE Shared Reading Manifesto Not about performance. About presence.https://readingtoconnect.com/engaged-shared-reading/

🔹 Reading To Connect The movement. The method. The invitation.https://readingtoconnect.com/

📬 Connect: quinn@readingtoconnect.com

Because you're not the problem.

And it’s okay to begin again.