I can't tell you how many fabulous, touching and incredible texts, email messages, letters and spoken words I have from the lovely people all around the world who love and have been impacted by Adams message in the Adams Cloud books. And yet I have very few pictures of families reading and enjoying Adams books. I am getting tired at looking at my ol face in the posts so I would absolutely love to see a fabulous selection of photos showing the beauty of how you look whilst reading and bonding together so I am very excited to see what wonderful photographs you send in for this weeks #timeislove photo competition. I wrote recently in the Irish Examiner my thoughts on reading with your family....
“I say ‘yes’ to my kids a lot and I say ‘no’ to my kids a lot,” he says, adding that when it comes to family first, children must also be expected to “give something into the heart.” “The message runs through the books, about love, happiness, kindness and friendship.
“People often think that Before You Sleep is about me and Adam but it’s really about expressing how to love a child.” It’s about explaining to the child that you love him or her even more than the lovely adventures you have together, like Christmas and Halloween and a great day on the beach.
I’m a big believer that the relationship happens from the day a child is born.
“They’re absorbing everything. If you can match a happy warm feeling with every time a connection is made in the brain, it gets locked into the brain.
“A lot of parents don’t necessarily know this because nobody’s told them about the importance of it – but it’s a belief and a theory and a philosophy which runs through all of my books in various forms.”
