TY - JOUR
AU1 - Robertson, Heather-Jane
AB - IN C AN AD A HEA THER-J ANE ROBER TSON ATELY the Canadian media The answer may be “not much,” especially kindergarten teacher, sought the school have been awash with articles if they need encouragement or a warm lap board’s post-hoc permission to read three and commentary on reading. to sit on. The StatCan survey on parents’ use books to his class as part of a class unit about We’re rather smug about how of time found that children have taken the “different families.” The Surrey board found much we read as a nation and brunt of their parents’ time/priority crunch. the books to be a little too different. how much international atten- High-income parents spend 68 minutes per Each story (e.g., One Dad, Two Dads, Ltion our authors command. And day on child care but just four minutes “teach- Brown Dads, Blue Dads) depicts same-sex despite the competing priorities of busy lives, ing or helping” their children. Low-income parents in a naturalizing light, an approach Canadian adults are still reading “for leisure” parents spend more time on child care — the board claimed offended the moral and about 20 minutes per day. According to Sta- 82 minutes — 
TI - The Decline of Small Pleasures
JF - Phi Delta Kappan
DO - 10.1177/003172170208400120
DA - 2002-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-decline-of-small-pleasures-CGrDMTko3s
SP - 93
EP - 94
VL - 84
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -