According to a new study, fewer parents are reading bedtime stories to their kids compared to previous generations.
According to a new study, fewer parents are reading bedtime stories to their kids compared to previous generations.
Around 64 percent of parents surveyed with children younger than seven read to their kids at any time, and a third of those parents never break out the books at night.
One in five parents that do read to their children said they read bedtimes stories every night, but four percent of the parents surveyed do not even own a book.
That’s around a quarter of a million children who don’t have a book to read.
The study results show that almost half of children today prefer watching TV, playing with toys or computer games to being read a bedtime story.
However, a survey from littlewoods.com says that 91 percent of parents were read to when they were children.
The lack of reading at home may have a detrimental effect on children’s development.
Data from a study by the Institute of Education shows that reading books between the ages of 10 and 16 significantly improves vocabulary and spelling skills and makes the children better at math.
