Reasons why you should read to your children

Like many other parents, you probably want to develop intelligence before anything else. Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence always have to go hand in hand for a child to develop in a balanced way and one way to achieve this is by reading them from very small stories. All parents want bright, intelligent children and that is why it is so important to choose a good school and for teachers to be good teachers ... but the secret of a good education and a good development always (always!) begins at home. 

You must remember that as a parent you have the power to unleash your children's learning potential by doing something as easy as making books and reading an integral and essential part of their lives. I am sure that deep down you know that reading to your children is a very good thing, but do you really know why it is good? Do you know what are the specific advantages for a toddler or preschooler of reading to them daily? Today I want to talk to you about some benefits that highlight the importance of reading to your children every day, especially in ages between two and five years.

Improve parent-child bond

Reading to your children every day will create a much healthier and healthier relationship with your children. As children get older, they will begin to move more to get to know the environment and that it is time to snuggle up next to you so you can read them a nice story It will be a very tender moment for both of you that you will enjoy and remember with great love. The child will begin to feel that the moment of reading is a moment of tranquility and leisure, relating it to the love he feels for his parents ... so it will never become something tedious or a chore.

Improve speech skills

Reading to children helps them improve their language skills and they will learn more vocabulary. Preschool-age children are learning enunciation and linguistic skills that are very important for establishing speech. By listening to the stories, the children will be reinforcing the basic sounds that make up their mother tongue. Sometimes a child can pick up a story and squeal and chatter, this is very important as a pre-literacy activity. Gradually you will begin to speak words and increase your vocabulary and pronunciation accuracy.

Improve communication skills

Reading a story to children every day will help them to have better communication skills. When you spend time reading to your children, they may be more likely to express themselves and interact appropriately with others in a healthy way. By witnessing the interactions between characters in the stories you read to her, she can begin to create a healthy social structure in her mind. That is also why you need to choose stories that are adapted to the age and maturity level of your children.

Improves command of the language

Mastering the language is essential to establish good communication with others. Reading in children has always been related to a better understanding of the fundamentals of the language for when they approach school age where this knowledge is taught. But at an early age it is essential for a good understanding and beginning of the command of the mother tongue.

Development of logical thinking skills

When you read to your children every day you will be helping them to enhance their logical thinking. They will be able to begin to understand abstract concepts, to apply logic in various contexts of their life, to be able to recognize cause and effect and above all, to use good judgment. As your young children begin to relate the scenarios in the books to what can happen in real life (in their own world), they will be more excited to hear and share more stories.

Improve concentration and discipline

Concentration and discipline are also worked on with children when stories are read to them every day. Young children can sit and listen to a story, and over time they will learn to sit in order to appreciate a movie or play. Along with reading comprehension, there is also discipline thanks to the improvement of attention span and memory, something that will undoubtedly go very well when they start the more abstract knowledge in school.

Academic excellence

One of the main benefits of reading in toddlers and preschoolers is that they may have a better aptitude and predisposition to learning in general. Studies show that students who are exposed to reading before preschool are more likely to be successful in other facets of formal education. It is necessary to understand words and phrases and to be able to explain and speak things in order to understand mathematics, science or any other social concept that will be introduced to them in elementary school.

Thinking of new experiences

When a child is read stories in a pleasant environment, in addition to feeling that it is an appropriate experience, he will be able to follow the thread of the story feeling that he understands what is happening. What's more, If the child lives a stressful experience, perhaps a good story that has to do with what has happened will help them to find coping strategies. For example, if a child is nervous because he has to start in a new school, reading him a story that deals with anxiety in new situations will be a success.

Reading is fun

If all this has seemed few reasons why it is good for you to read to your children every day, then another one that I have already mentioned above but that you should not forget is: the importance that for the child reading becomes something funny. A) Yes, sharing beautiful moments where reading is the main protagonist, the child will learn to feel that reading is a good thing and you will be more likely, over time, to choose books over video games, television or other less appropriate forms of entertainment.

Do you already know the book that you are going to read to your children tonight?