Author: Lavin

Lavin is the co-founder of TheTipsLab and Chief Teller at Canadia Bank Plc, where she has spent over a decade working her way up from Teller to a senior leadership role. With a background in both banking and community development, she brings financial clarity to the world of garden business — helping readers price their services, manage cash flow, and build businesses that are genuinely profitable.

My daughter was eight years old, and getting her to open a book felt like an Olympic sport. Sound familiar? If you’re looking for genuine, proven ways to motivate kids to read without the nightly battle, you’re in the right place. I’m not a teacher or a child psychologist. I’m just a parent who got tired of watching my kid stare at the wall instead of picking up a book. So I started experimenting. Some ideas flopped. Others genuinely changed our evenings. What I found is that learning how to get your child to read has less to do with…

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