Thus far, 7 blog posts on reading. After each post, I think to myself – there, that’s done with.  Apparently not! So how many surveys and legislations and propaganda pieces does it take to get this simple point across? Obviously a lot more than I have managed to squeeze into 7 blog posts. Well then, here goes… Yet another study books – this is how they work. A survey of 4th Graders, undertaken by the University of Maryland, revealed that engaged readers from economically disadvantaged homes routinely outperformed less engaged readers from richer families. “Based on a massive sample, this...

Parents, when confronted with a problem relating to their child, often hark back to the golden era of their childhood when things were “different “. In this context, the word “different” is definitely used to imply that things were “better”. Firstly, it is highly debatable if any change can be entirely negative. Secondly, it is futile to bemoan changes which are clearly irreversible. And the changes we see around us definitely are. New days require new ways and adaption remains the key to good parenthood. The area of child development where rapid changes have been most obvious is language fluency...