“No dessert until you have finished your dinner.” Children quickly learn to dread these words, hoping to bypass the yucky green beans, chewy steak, and bland rolls, and skip to the delicious dessert. However, parents know that despite the pleasure and ease involved in consuming dessert, health is more important. Unfortunately, adults do not apply this truth in the entertainment world. Television, a popular form of entertainment among children, endangers a child’s wellbeing; reading, however, enhances it.