There are a lot of books on parenting. Before my daughter was born I read a book on pregnancy, one of those 500 pages texts from a high class place - Mayo Clinic or Harvard or something like that. It was helpful, but given I can’t even remember the name, clearly not something that I considered life changing. However, after reading Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain I was all hyped up to drown my new kid in words. We travelled a lot when she was young, so didn’t have a lot of books, but she sure had them read to her. When I took a year off as a stay-at-home-dad I kept having those 30 million words ticking in my mind. By the time she was 2 1/2 she was getting five books read to her a …