11.   Instead of just grabbing a colorful box off the store shelf, some parents are reading product reviews, talking to friends and even testing the software first.

12.   Kunzel says parents should read to their youngsters whenever possible, even after the child learns how.

13.   Many of the things I enjoy most in life, writing included, I can trace to the first picture books my parents read to me.

14.   My sister, Natalie, and I always brought a board game, and we would play quietly while our parents read.

15.   Parents can read along with children and help them find hidden bees.

16.   Parents read the left-hand pages, which contain more complex sentences and vocabulary, and kids read the right-hand pages, written in simple language and short sentences.

17.   Sighted parents can read along with their visually-impaired children, as their little hands feel the raised, dotted Braille characters.

18.   She started a slumber party reading program more than a decade ago after discovering that fewer parents were reading to their children.

19.   Some children enter school with poor vocabularies because they come from homes where parents rarely read aloud and spoken language is less complex.

20.   Still, her agency gives parents a place to file complaints, and parents can read those files before choosing a provider.