Plus, Why It Matters

Getting lost in a good book played a crucial role in my childhood. I was a highly sensitive child who got in a lot of trouble at home. When I was sent to my room, reading de-escalated my anger. By immersing myself in the world of a fictional character for a few minutes, reading enabled me to return to family life with forgiveness and calm, forgetting what had upset me in the first place.

Recently, I read a statistic reported by Monitoring the Future that reading books is on serious decline in the lives of the generation we’re currently raising. Though I wasn’t surprised (what did we expect would happen with the rise of parents handing personal devices to their kids at young ages?), I was alarmed.

Why?  Because reading less and scrolling more has Read more