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DanBC on Dec 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read (2010)

> but reading is the single skill with the highest payoff, when it comes to learning things that let you learn more things

Not when you're two. When you're two you need to learn that asking questions is okay, how to ask questions, and how people answer questions.

aaronem on Dec 22, 2015 [–]

It takes bad parenting to give a kid that age the impression that asking questions could ever not be okay. As long as that mistake isn't made, the rest follows organically.

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