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Ten minutes

Here is the whole advice, if you only have time for one page: read aloud to your child for ten minutes, most nights, for as many years as they will let you. That is it. You do not need special books, special voices or a cozy reading nook with fairy lights. You need a book, a kid and ten minutes.

Most parents I talk to feel guilty about reading aloud, the way they feel guilty about vegetables and screen time. They think they should be doing half an hour, with discussion questions. So they do nothing, because they are tired and half an hour is too much. Ten minutes is not too much. Ten minutes fits between bath and bed on the worst day of the week.

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