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It’s hard to raise the perfect child. Parents invest time and money into educational tools like Baby Einstein in a bid to improve infant cognitive…
![Prisoners Gain Understanding of Others through Literature](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2016/04/Feature-1-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Does reading have the ability to increase empathy? Writer and activist Alaa Al Aswany thinks so. He believes that the role of literature has been…
![Reading Is](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2014/12/11-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Brigid Davidson wrote her poem “Reading Is” at age 11 for a national poetry competition. Davidson’s poem describes her difficulty with reading, caused by her…