When idealistic visions pop into your head, when you find yourself thinking about that Instagram post by the mom whose kids all appear perfectly content to listen to her read a classic for hours, stop yourself. Shut down the idealistic visions, because when you’re reading aloud, even when it looks imperfect, you are going all-in. And you’ll never regret it. You won’t say, twenty years from now, “Dang, if I could do the parenting thing over again, I’d read less to my kids.” It’s worth it even when it looks nothing like a gorgeous magazine photo op. It’s worth it, perhaps, because it looks
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