Starting a Mother-Daughter Book Group

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshops.com, and I want to talk about how to start a mother-daughter book group. The reason you'd want to start a group like this to share and communicate your love of reading and learning with your daughter in a way that's fun and doesn't involve you preaching or sort of ordering your daughter around. It gives you some special time that you can spend together, and the group really provides a place where you can get together and have fun. And enjoy each other's company. Start by inviting a group of mothers and daughters, with daughters around the same age, and similar interests, choose one book that you'll all read for your next meeting. Give yourselves a month to read it, and then you know explain the mothers to the mothers and daughters that they'll be reading together, either reading aloud to one another or each having separate reading but then discussing the book with each other. At your book group, enjoy some lively conversation around the book, think about ways that you can just introduce more discussion into the group. But also make the group fun. Try to avoid agendas or any forced topics which will make the group seem like school. You really want this to be a fun experience where you all enjoy each other's company. The guidelines for the group be to have fun, to read the book together, the mothers and daughters to read the book together, and to work together as a group to choose the next month's reading assignment. You'll find that over the years, the mothers and daughters will enjoy a lot of time together and encourage a love of reading and learning. And those are some ways to form a mother-daughter book group."