A Different Kind of Recess A love of reading often begins at home. The Finnish Reading Center recently found that over half of parents felt they weren’t reading enough to their kids. They started giving a free bag of books to every baby born in Finland. Although filling our homes with books might be a start, psychologists find that it’s not enough. If we want our kids to enjoy reading, we need to make books part of their lives. That involves talking about books during meals and car rides, visiting libraries or bookstores, giving books as gifts, and letting them see us read. Children pay
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