I was saddened to learn that gen Z parents don’t read to their children because they don’t have time, dislike having to read the same book over and over, don’t enjoy reading books themselves or find it boring (2 June). It was one of my great joys to read to my daughter, though granted, there were no smartphones vying for her attention in the early noughties.
Siobhan McGovern
Edinburgh
• “I just don’t have the energy to read to my kid” – what rubbish. If you don’t have the energy to sit on the sofa next to your child and share a storybook together, what on earth did you have children for?
Helen Clutton
Bristol
• Surely the reason men feel the need to claim the home office is that, given their known inabilities to multitask and adapt to new situations, they would achieve nothing if they were not sealed into their habitual working environment (Letters, 4 June). Women, on the other hand, just add doing the day job to the list.
Anne Cowper
Swansea
• If only Rachel Reeves shared Bernie Sanders’ vision: “We’re going to take on the billionaire class. They’re going to start paying their fair share of taxes” (‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed, 4 June). Instead, austerity continues and the rich get richer.
Liz Byrne
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
• The wedding gift letters (3 June) remind me of an engagement present I received from my soon to be mother-in-law – a cookery book entitled Can She Cook? I could.
Christine Walters
Buxton, Derbyshire
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