Many parents teach their children to love reading...
Mine did too. Constantly, I would be reprimanded by my teachers for hiding a book behind my math text.
But, my mother also had a unique way of making me read for fun.
Hidden in the attic was a massive supply of books that my parents had read when they were young.
We were told that we were NOT to touch those books under penalty of severe punishment.
Of course, those were the books we devoured...