The Benefits of Reading to Your Child

12Aug/110

The world has always remained a mystery and learning is never a task to accomplish to find answers to those mysteries. It’s a continuous process and the limit is infinity. The greatest hobby anyone can have for himself is to develop a reading habit. The enormous knowledge of everything in this world can only be gained by the tool of reading different books. Love towards reading is the habit your child should acquire so as to be smart and intelligent kid as he/she grows.

The child’s world begins with the parents as their role models. So you can embed your child with reading habit from his very earlier childhood days. The interest towards this habit can be brought from reading to them even from their earlier days. There are huge benefits a child gets from parents reading to him as many studies reveal. A study was done at Rhode Island Hospital in two groups consisting of children having eight months of age. One group of the babies was too often read books to them and the other group was never. The interesting observation made was that the group to which reading was done regularly tend to understand more words. That means the receptive vocabularies by them was greater, nearly 40% and for the other group it was only nearly 16%.

The benefits of reading to your child were thus illustrated through this reliable mean. There are many tips regarding the art of reading for your babies. The first thing to bear in mind is the fact that your aim is to build within him a pleasurable and a positive association with the task of reading. At the beginning start with books which have only a lesser text and more colorful and bright pictures as they help your child seek better attention and good focus. They like colors and brightness of this new world they have arrived. For babies who enjoy nursery songs and rhymes, sing for them.

Try to choose small books which are square in shape so that your babies can grab them easily and the pages are not damaged. Just after a period of six months, this enables him to turn pages of the book. It is advisable to choose books of type plastic bath or books having cloth pages. The first books provided to babies should be short since the span of his attention will be short. You should keep his attention in going for an interactive way of reading. Ask him questions regularly like “What is in the box?” Tell him rather than just reading. Instead of reading “This is a ball”, read like “See baby... This is called ball”.

With keeping in mind the Benefits of Reading to Your Child, emphasis should also be put in making him involved. Keep talking to him about pictures before you turn away the pages. This way he can acquire words thus developing his vocabulary. Babies usually play with toys, but who sooner or later succeeds in life enjoy playing in the world of books with the words and finally turning into creative thinkers who effectively make the world move with their innovative ideas.