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Reading to Your Child is Not the Key
Reading won’t matter without the rest of these important factors.
Helen Pearson of the Life Project echoed several other people, such as parenting experts, educators, and psychologists when she said,
“children whose parents were reading to them daily when they were five and then showing an interest in their education at the age of 10 were significantly less likely to be in poverty at the age of 30.”
The impression being that somehow reading to your child is the crux. These kinds of statements can be misleading.
In the sciences, we are taught this statement, “Correlation does not necessarily mean causation.”
In other words, just because two things occur together, doesn’t mean one causes the other.
So yes, it is true that in households where parents often read to their children, those children are less likely to be impoverished as adults. BUT THINK LIKE A SCIENTIST as Neil Degrasse Tyson would say.
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