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Children's Books and other threats
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Children's Books and other threats

Reading to children is one of the best ways to foster empathy, which is great.... as long as you want them to be empathetic.

Stories aren’t just how we pass time—they’re how we pass on what it means to be human. We sit down with librarian and children’s literature expert Betsy Bird to unpack why reading aloud is more than a bedtime ritual. It’s brain food during the fastest phase of neural growth; a daily practice that builds language, attention, and the social skill that hol…

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