Medical X-Press – Staff Writer Reddy 
New Macquarie University research shows parents can help improve their children’s literacy and numeracy skills by having a greater influence on the type of games they play in their free time. With the summer holidays around the corner, the study indicates that the type of toys or activities adults present to children can influence what they want to learn about – and that children are influenced by what adults are doing in the background while we think they’re not watching.(more)