Read a book together, then watch the adaptation, then talk about what changed. Congratulations — your kid is now a film critic and a literary analyst, and they think they're just having family movie night.

"The book was better" is the gateway drug to literary opinion-forming. When a kid says "they left out the part where..." or "that character didn't look like I imagined," they're doing the deep comprehension work that reading teachers dream about. They're comparing texts, evaluating creative choices, and articulating preferences about narrative. They just don't know it.