Why Reading to Your Toddler Matters There's a particular kind of exhaustion that hits around 7pm when you have a toddler. The dishes aren't done, someone has smeared yogurt on the couch, and the last thing you want to do is read Goodnight Moon for the four hundredth time. Read it anyway. Here's why it's worth it — and why it's probably easier than you think. Their brain is building itself right now Between ages one and three, a child's brain forms new neural connections at a