(How) Can we read? 5 ways to overcome obstacles to reading

If you don’t know what I’m talking about when I say “obstacles to reading,” if you don’t have a child (or more than one child) who has struggled in any way with learning to read, if your response to other caregivers who are dealing with this issue is to say things like, “Oh, my kids never had a problem! They were reading Harry Potter in 1st grade and wi…