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Here is why you should read your child a story book.

You shift between those jobs a day just to fend for your family. It is your greatest obsession lately.  In fact, it has been your preoccupation ever since that cute kid came along. You strive so hard to provide her with what you could only see in your dreams. You try hard to eliminate that vicious cycle from her life. You don’t wish for her to catch that bad disease. Indeed, you recently bought her that hundred-dollar bed and bedding, which cuddles her every time she hops onto it for the night.

You are also well aware that every family has a ritual that it performs every now and then. Whether it is praying together every evening before bed or every morning before going to work; eating together whenever you have time off of your busy schedule or playing together with your loved one(s) in the backyard every weekend, these activities play an important role in bonding the family together.

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