EP26: Strategies for raising reading kids, with Cousin Rick

Oh ho! For our 26th episode we bring on a very special guest: Our cousin Rick Pfeifle! Apparently, he goes by Eric in his professional lawyer life, but we have always known him as Rick. Or Ricky. Whatever you call him, he's from Dallas and he's got an active-reading household. How has he raised voracious readers (8 and 10 years old)? What do he and Kate do to keep them reading and not playing video games? There's been some friction! "They don't like that sometimes!" How does he manage the guilt he feels when he watches sports instead of reading Dick Ebersol's memoir or the Baseball 100 because he's been reading all day as a lawyer? We talk about strategies for keeping kids reading even as they become teenagers and beyond. But also Sam read some Updike and an upcoming book about mermaids and has some thoughts on Updike as a "horndog."