Reading Declines

During my daily reading on the New York Times online, I came across this article:

Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading
By MOTOKO RICH
Americans appear to be reading less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are declining, according to a new report by the National Endowment for the Arts

As someone who came from a family where we all read the paper every morning and all enjoy reading as adults, I find this very troubling. Granted, I probably didn't read much for fun until I graduated from law school, but that has more to do with the fact that I had to read volumes of stuff for school and relished the opportunity when I graduated to read stuff I actually liked. Reading case law is entirely different from sitting down and devouring a book. I'm lucky that Sean likes to read too. We get two newspapers every day and the New York Times on Sunday in addition to reading books. I guess we are in the minority.

We plan to read to Stephen every night and have him read the newspaper with us once he's old enough to read.