The Importance of Reading to Improve Cognitive Function

I'm so glad you brought up the issue of schools because and childhood, more generally, it's been a huge explosion in children displaying attention problems. Every one child who was diagnosed with ADHD when I was seven years old, there's now 100 children who were given that. So actually it's an even bigger increase in the US. And my kids grew up with, they still nice adults have my kids range from 23 to 30 read books. They weren't read off their screen. They're always carrying books and consuming books. The dramatic improvements in academic functioning and social emotional cognitive, that's 35, 75% improvement. When we listen to a story together, our hearts start to be insane

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