Usually when we think of habits, we think about breaking them–nail-biting, smoking, snacking in front of the TV– but what about forming good habits?

The folks at MotherReader have invented a great new habit and are eager for all of us to pick it up as well–they have vowed to visit five children’s literature–also known as kidslit–blogs every day for 21 days and–this is the crux of the matter–leave a comment on each one that they visit!

With the knowledge that it takes 21 days to form a habit, they have issued a challenge to their readers to do this for three weeks. There is even the hint of a prize at the end for those who report their progress to the issuers of the challenge at MotherReader.

Comments are the life blood of a blog. If bloggers weren’t attempting to create a discussion and a continuing conversation with their readers, they would not use a blog format for their ideas and reviews. This is such a fabulous challenge because it will create conversations between bloggers and their readers–and will create relationships in the kidlit blogosphere!

If you haven’t already done so, pick up this gauntlet and embark upon this challenge–it’s never to late to take on a new habit, especially one as good as this one!

Posted by: Janet | This entry was posted on Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 2:35 am and is filed under Reading the World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Tags: blogosphere, Children's Books, kidslit, MotherReader