Welcome to the Larding Curb podcast.

I'm your co-host Alicia Thomas Sarsie and joined by our other co-host, Dr. Albert Chang.

Hello, Albert.

Hey, Alicia.

What's going on?

Thanksgiving was wonderful.

The holiday season has officially started and it's cold outside.

So yeah, well. What a, you know, what a wonderful time of the year, huh? It is. Not that I necessarily

like the cold, but, you know, it's all a part of the process, a part of the season. So it's a good time.

It is. It is indeed. I hope that your family

is well and you had a nice Thanksgiving. I did. Yeah. My sister's family visited. And so,

my kids got some cousin time and it's all very good. That is so important and so special.

You know, thinking about growing up, some of my most fond memories were being around cousins

and creating those memories. So that's such a gift. I totally agree. Well, very good. Well,

we've got a great show today. So I'm looking forward to the conversation that we're going to have

about ADHD. So that's going to be really good. Looking forward to that. But of course,

before we jump into our guests and our topic of the day, it's time for some articles of the week. Would you like to tell us what you're reading? Sure. Yeah, I found a really fascinating one. You know, Alicia, we talk a lot about literacy on this show and science of reading. So my article is about reading, but it's not about the science of reading.

It's, so here's the headline.

I'll just give it to you, why parents aren't reading to kids and what it means for young students.

And so this is an article from the 74.

It covers just that topic, including some recent surveys that were done,

finding that less than half of children, ages zero to four, are read

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