Kids learn social media fails by watching their parents. Forget readers — how do you raise writers? The agony and the ecstasy of summer reading. Is sex the secret to getting boys to read? What you need to read in order to be a better writer. Plus: the collector mentality.

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• Parents’ social media habits are teaching children the wrong lessons - The Washington Post
• Dad recreates daughter's selfies | Daily Mail Online
• What Parents Can Do to Nurture Good Writers - The New York Times
• Want Teenage Boys to Read? Easy. Give Them Books About Sex. - The New York Times
• The Perils of Comic Book Collecting
• ‘Summer of Hell’ at Penn Station kicks off this week | New York Post
• Barry is Reading: Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta | Amazon | BN.com | iBooks | Indiebound
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