poetry for children

Reading to your children is a wonderful gift, for parent and child. My oldest son has gotten mildly interested in poetry lately. He knows Daddy likes to write so he asked me to write him a poem. And so I did. Sure it wasn't very good. But it was great joy writing it. I did it that night after he asked. It was a purely fatherly thing to do. I suppose I've never really written something specifically FOR my children. I think it's something I'll continue to do. He hasn't yet read it, I emailed it to him. The bigger joy will be knowing he opened his email and saw his Daddy wrote him a poem. But second to that joy is the feeling of actually doing it. I'd recommend that for any parent.