As parents, trying to get the work-life balance right can be a challenge. Juggling work commitments, and household responsibilities can make it difficult to find quality time with your children and family.
Research from The National Literacy Trust shows that parental involvement in a child?s learning positively affects their performance at school, leading to higher academic achievement, greater cognitive competence and improved problem-solving skills.
Many of us will remember the enjoyment of shared reading: being read to and reading aloud with our parents. Reading at home provides a powerful shared experience between parent and child and can help turn children into life-long readers. 
So how do you encourage your child to read, develop a love of learning, and spend less time on their screens"  The key is to find topics that genuinely interest them. While some children like stories and fiction, many other curious young readers are naturally drawn to amazing facts about space, animals, life on Earth, history, inventions, discoveries, art, sport and a thousand other non-fiction topics.
This insight ? that finding out amazing information about real life can be a powerful pathway to a lifelong love of reading and self-discovery ? inspired the creation of What on Earth! Magazine, a fun and fascinating nonfiction magazine for children aged 7-14. 
?For many children the real world is far more amazing than anything you can make up. Tapping into this natural sense of wonde...