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

  • Written by Erin Clabough, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
Reading to young kids improves their social skills − and a new study shows it doesn’t matter whether parents stop to ask questionsA father reads a bedtime story to his daughter in 1955. Lambert/Getty Images

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 school-age children because their kids can read on their own.

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