Why parents aren’t reading to kids and what it means for young students

December 1, 2025 by The 74

Jeana Wallace never enjoyed reading as a child.

The books she read in school didn’t interest her and “constant deadlines made it even harder to connect with the stories,” she said. Reading was a chore, something to rush through for a test or school assignment.

So when Wallace became a mother in 2019, she didn’t read to her son at home often – about once or twice a week, “maybe not even that,” said Wallace, who lives with her family in Frankfort, Kentucky.

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