Develop Your Child’s Reading Habit at a Young Age

Reading can unleash a world of imagination unknown to a child before. Not only it is a child’s best friend, but at the same time it helps a child grow as a person, come into their own, realize their dreams and true potential and get a glimpse into the future that they imagine they want!

Reading encourages a child to think, to raise questions and find its answers, feeds their curiosity and helps them learn about people, places and things. Reading sharpens the mind and helps children devise answers to complex problems. After all what’s really in this world without knowledge? Everything else is destructible, only knowledge can never be taken away! With the power of knowledge comes confidence, the will to conquer all and to achieve ones dreams. Give the gift of reading to your child at an early age to make him / her sharp confident adults.

There are various ways to subtly push your child towards reading. Research proves that listening ability develops fast in a foetus and thus expecting parents are requested to sing and talk to their unborn child. Once a child is born, he / she first recognize the voice of a parent and later learn to recognize their faces. Babies feel fascinated with sounds and rhymes. Toddlers speak faster if the parents are in a habit of talking to them all the time. They copy and try to imitate sounds and words. Reading bedtime stories and poems to babies and little children helps them relate with the world at their own level.

As kids grow up, life becomes busier for the parents leaving little time for reading. But the parents should not forget that family reading and making special reading time with each child gives them that special chance to bond with their child on a one-to-one basis. Through reading and play acting the parent-child bond becomes strong giving parents’ access to what’s troubling their child. With the gift of reading, you can gift your child a special friend, one that will never desert him / her even when they feel alienated with the rest of the world, including you!

Where there is a will, there is a way! So make time to read to your child by becoming creative. Read the morning paper to your child and talk about what’s happening around them on the way to school. Read and sing together when preparing dinner, and eat together discussing about the events of the day or something important on the news channel. Read something interesting and age specific at bed time and discuss the story.

To inculcate the habit of reading in your child, set an example. Take up reading yourself, gift your child a variety of books that interest him/her, take them to visit places they have read about, encourage group reading among friends and enroll your child into reading clubs. Reading develops imagination that takes children to worlds beyond, which they couldn’t otherwise visit.

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