Allie Beth Stuckey

OK, I've got a spiel on reading.

reading and just why reading is so important.

Why do these statistics matter?

I could go on and on just about how important it is for our intellect and for our formation as human beings to be able to read.

I could go through all the statistics that show you the dismal reading levels for high school graduates and all the data that shows that this deductive reasoning is not good versus the

phonics method.

But I want to give you a bigger picture of why.

Because maybe you're a parent and you're like, look, my sixth grader doesn't like to read.

It's too late.

They're super into sports or they're super into science.

It doesn't really matter.

Or maybe you're an adult and you're like, I don't even like to read and I'm not going to push myself to read.

And I just find it boring.

There was a trend not too long ago that I saw on

Instagram of parents saying, confession, I don't like reading to my kids.

I don't read to my kids.

They don't want to listen to me read.

And it's boring.

And I don't like it.

I'm tired at the end of the day.