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Apart from anything else, reading to a younger family member, especially if it is the parents, promotes family bonding.

Parents demonstrate that reading for pleasure is acceptable and not a chore, and to sit quietly together is probably as good quality time with a child as playing a sport.

Sharing in a non-competitive manner shows children that life is not always about winning, getting the highest score or being the best, but about sharing time and interests with the family.

Three-year-old Dereon Atkins gets some help from Lawanna Johnson, a early childhood education teacher, on one of the new laptops during the dedication ceremony to open a GTECH After School Advantage Computer Lab at the Roberts Family Development Center in Sacramento, Calif. on July 12, 2013. [Photo/IC]