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The most important ways parents can prepare children for school

  • Written by Allyssa McCabe, Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageReading to children and talking to them about the story helps them love stories and become better readers. Slavic/www.shutterstock.com

With school starting, parents wonder what they can do to help their children succeed. Almost everyone knows that reading books with young children is important, and it is. But even more important is that we talk...

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