Learn to read, kid, but don’t fall in love.

It’s not enough that your kids learn to read. You want them to love to read.

It’s the love of reading that’s linked to success and happiness — to better education, better jobs and fewer cavities. The more kids read, the better they do, period. So it’s your job, as a parent, to make them love it . . .

Except you can’t really make anyone love anything.

All you can really do is read to them and read around them, and hope that reading is like chicken pox, that they’ll eventually succumb to it with e...