Reading to young kids improves their social skills − and a new study shows it doesn’t matter whether parents stop to ask questions

In 2024, 51% of families read aloud to their very young children, while 37% read aloud to their kids between the ages of 6 and 8 years old. Some parents have said they stop reading aloud to their ...
Yahoo

Reading to Kids Is Becoming Obsolete

Reading to Kids Is Becoming Obsolete originally appeared on WeHaveKids. Who among Gen X remembers RIF — the major Reading Is Fundamental campaign? It clearly worked because the importance of reading ...
Parents on MSN

Parents are paying their kids to read and exercise—here’s what experts think

A recent report shows changes in family chores but here's why experts aren't sold on the approach.
Yahoo

Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach

Children and an adult read books at the Altadena Main Library in Altadena, Calif., in March 2025. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images After decades of stagnating ...
Penn Live

Encourage children to read: it’s a gift that will last a lifetime | Opinion

Children’s Book Week is celebrated May 5 – 11. As a nation and as parents, let’s use this week to help our kids fall in love with reading again. Children’s Book Week is a perfect time to put down the ...
USA Today

Desperate to keep kids off screens? They won't be able to put these books down

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...
Los Angeles Times

Parents, chill: Why you don’t need to teach your 3-year-old to read

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...
Forbes

The New Kindle Colorsoft Kids Is Among My Kids’ Favorite Ways To Read

I cover baby and kids gear after a decade of reporting on parenting. Amazon recently released its very first color Kindle designed for young readers: the Kindle Colorsoft Kids. While my older children ...
Sun Journal

5 ways to keep kids reading this summer

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WPBF

"Read Like Royalty": Get kids excited about reading

WHO DOESN’T LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT? THAT’S THE NAME OF A LOCAL INITIATIVE GEARED TOWARDS GETTING KIDS EXCITED ABOUT BOOKS. JOINING ME NOW TO EXPLAIN HOW IT ALL WORKS AND HOW TO GET KIDS INVOLVED IS ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Opinion: California is failing kids in reading. There is a better way.

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early literacy crisis firsthand. Many of the kids I serve have phonological ...