Audio books help me to spend more time with my family

Posted on April 30, 2009
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No doubt about it.

I’m a big fan of books.

I have loved books since I was a small child. My parents made sure they instilled the love of books in me. Unlike my other mates throughout school who always had problems reading, I never had such problems.

I love to read, it has always been a joy. I didn’t even do it to get good grades at school, I did it because I loved it.

My devotion to books has continued into my life as a grown-up.

To tell you how serious this love is, I even met my wife in the library where I went to get a novel I had heard so much about.

Now that I have kids I still read. My love for books is so great that I am on my way to instilling the same love into my kids too.

I used to make it a habit to read to my kids EVERY night before they go to bed, no matter how tired I am when I get home from my job.

At this point in my life, I had never realised that audio books were available to anyone and everyone – I never even knew that you could download audio books directly on the Internet.

I didn’t expect it to, but because I work long hours at my job, I always get very tired while reading to my kids at night. In many occasions I have even fallen asleep before my kids right whilst I’m reading to them!

Deep within me I could see that there just wasn’t any way I could keep up with the habit of always reading to my kids each night… I was left feeling that unless I managed to find another job that didn’t require such a time commitment (but one that still paid well – impossible, right?)

At that same time that I was thinking of that, I was promoted in my job. This then demanded my presence at the office one hour before everyone else, and – you won’t believe it – one hour AFTER everyone else had left the office.

Yikes, that’s the one hour I spend every morning reading a chapter on motivations and inspirations and one hour I spend reading to my kids after work – all going down the drain.

I was in a great dilemma about what to do. My wife suggested I give up reading to my kids at nights, and she would do it instead, but I just couldn’t let that happen because she had too much to do herself, and I didn’t want to add more responsibilities for her.

I was still battling for a way out when I discovered audio books on a website I stumbled upon! The website I found was called Spoken Network. www.spokennetwork.com?cam=ama0005

Eureka… the savior had arrived.

Six weeks after my first contact with audio books, my dilemma has ended.

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