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No time for tales: Gen Z parents find reading 'boring,' worsening US literacy crisis

In America’s digital age, storytime is vanishing—replaced by screens and sidelined by Gen Z parents. As bedtime reading fades, so does the foundation of literacy. This quiet cultural shift is fueling a national crisis, where children enter school ill-prepared, and the ripple effects threaten not just education—but the soul of a reading nation.