How your family dog can boost your child's reading skills

We might have to retire "the dog ate my homework" and swap in "the dog helps with my homework."

Canadian researchers did a study with seven- and eight-year-old children that found reading out loud to a dog was more helpful than doing so to an adult.

Psychology Today, which shared the study, said that the kids benefit from having a nonjudgmental listener that pays close attention to them.

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