[topkai22]

Parents today aren’t as sucky as you think. Here’s some data on reading for 0-5 year olds: https://www.childhealthdata.org/browse/survey/results?q=7196...

The vast majority of parents are trying, reading at least a couple times a week.

I also haven’t seen any data to suggest that WHAT is read is all that important. The important things seem to be that the reading happens and roughly aligns with or mildly stretches the child’s language capacity.

Finally, there is no reason to assume a “twisted ulterior motive” to parents doubting the article- the study was small N (47) and doesn’t seem to disentangle high screen time from low reading/other interactions.