Why You Should Read Every Day To Your Children

One of the most important things parents can do, beyond keeping kids healthy and safe, is to read with them at least 20 minutes a day. That means starting when they are newborns and not even able to talk, and continuing well beyond the years that they can read by themselves.

Reading to children helps develop imagination, listening skills, and a lifelong love of books. Just as important, kids love being read to. When you read to kids, you are spending quality time just for the two of you.

Study after study shows that early reading with children helps them learn to speak, interact, bond with parents and read early themselves, and reading with kids who already know how to read helps them feel close to caretakers, understand the world around them and be empathetic citizens of the world.

One of the most important benefits of reading to kids is that it plays a large role in language and literacy development. Books for children are our first introduction to the art of storytelling.

Storytelling also offers children the opportunity to learn about feelings as they sympathize with the characters in a book. Children who are read to not only improve their literacy skills, their language skills improve, too. Some studies have even shown that children who are regularly read to perform better at school and exhibit less troubled behavior.

Bedtime is a perfect time to sit quietly and read to your baby, toddler, or school-aged child.Make reading a daily habit. Read at the same time every day and your child will soon make sure you don’t forget it’s time for a book.

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