Time Requirements and End Results

How much time do I have to spend reading to my child each day?
I am a working mum. I can only spare 30mins a day. Is this enough?

When I started reading to my son, it is with the main intent to develop his speech. I do not have a time frame for him to achieve various milestones. I do not have a specific time a day I should spend reading to him. I do not have a targeted end result to achieve as I know that each child develop at their own pace and I believe that reading should be done with passion and love. However, I do set a very minimal objective that I need to achieve. That is :

1) I must read to him on a daily basis. It can be 1 book or many books. A child can sense it when you read with passion. It is only when you read with passion that you evoke interests in children to listen. For most times, I spend an average of about 30mins a day reading. Typically : when he wake in the morning sitting on potty (now he poo with a book; not sure if he can poo without); before he naps in the afternoon and before he naps at night. I find these timing really convenient. For the 1st 15-20mins, my son will be so highly engrossed in the story that he forgot he need to sleep. However as the story goes on, sleep kicks in...

2) I talk to him as and when I can. I tell him about the birds and the sky as we walk in the garden. I talk about the trees and the flowers when our car passes by such. I talk about the fish and beef in his porridge as he have his lunch and dinner. The topics are varied, the topics are not important. Whats important is for us to talk and communicate with the child. I am not sure if this helps but at age 2, my son was telling me about the coconut trees he see as our car passes them by, about the worms that wriggle as it moves amongst the leave, about the mussels whose shells go open and close, open and close deep deep in the ocean. at age 2 and a half, he was about to pronounce and rememeber 4-6 syllabus dino names like : barasauras, giganatosaurus, caudipteryx and his favourite triceratops. Come to think of it, it helps that myself is a chatty person by nature ;)

3) I allow him TV shows like animal planet. It is educational by nature and it involves narration about animals - his love.

4) I send him to a playgroup mainly to establish friendships, to 'play' with other children and to be exposed to classroom setting learning. Again, I do not expect my son to know alphabets, counting, shapes etc when I send him for such lessons. The main intent is to play (and a secondary intent to learn as he play). By the end of the class, I am sure the child's speech development will improve. Even if it doesn't, his/her social communications skills will.

So, back to the question how much time is required daily in order to cultivate a child's love for books and reading? I would really recommend a very minimal 15mins of reading time. This plus the time spent on talking and play with the child, should add up to nothing less than 1hour.