Tara

“One thing that we, as a society, don’t fully acknowledge is just how difficult, how taxing, how utterly exhausting and draining it is to care for little children. It is work, in the purest, rawest sense of the word.”
― Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

“The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

“Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Put in more sobering terms, only one-third of twenty-first-century American children now read with sufficient understanding and speed at the exact age when their future learning depends on it. The fourth grade represents a Maginot Line between learning to read and learning to use reading to think and learn. More disturbing altogether, close to half”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World