Read to Your Children
It may surprise you to know that literacy is a problem in America, making it impossible for many to enjoy the wonders of reading a good story and the classic novels that are such staples of American culture.
The situation is made even more tragic because there is a simple solution that can ensure that you raise literate and intelligent children: read to them. By reading to a child, you are showing them that adults value books and the wealth of knowledge that they contain and will pique their curiosity. By reading to your child at bedtime and discussing what you have read with them will inspire a life long love of books that will bring a magic into their lives that only books can create.
An interest in reading isnt the only benefit. Research has also shown that children whose parents read to them are more self confident, more able to express themselves, and given to success throughout their schooling and beyond.
A child craves familiarity, and this will extend to their desires in books. Your own child might want you to read them the same book whenever you have story time. Though repeating stories occasionally is not a bad idea, if you do not introduce some variety to your reading material, the growth of your childs ideas and values may stagnate, as they are not being exposed to new material, and are not forced to think during reading time.
Childrens books are an especially wonderful source of life lessons and a wealth of good morals and ethics. If you do not read a variety of books to your child they may become singularly focused on a particular idea found in their favorite book and not grow up to be broad-minded or inquisitive adults.
Illiteracy is a big problem in America nowadays. In fight against it the nation is powerless - but the individual is mighty. It all begins in the early childhood days, and because of that, we at http://mychildbook.com would like to give you additional resources.
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