Discuss current events at the dinner table and refer to the magazine and newspapers you've read. Most important of all, read yourself. Read the backs of cereal boxes. Let your young children and teens see you get lost in a book. Ask your teenagers if they have a good book to recommend to you.
Teens love to give adults advice.
Ask them to accompany you to the library or book store to help you find something to read. Listen to their thoughts on their favorite magazines and books over coffee at the local neighborhood hangout. Fathers, read everything, anywhere, but read in front of your sons. They need to know that books will get them farther in life than a basketball and they need you to show them. You know you cannot stand with a lit cigarette in your hand and tell your child not to smoke.