There can be few things as powerful as regularly reading to a young child. It has astonishing benefits for children: comfort and reassurance, confidence and security, relaxation, happiness and fun. Giving a child time and full attention when reading them a story tells them they matter. It builds self-esteem, vocabulary, feeds imagination and even improves their sleeping patterns.
Reading is a great habit. Like all habits, it needs repetition and regularity to establish itself. Because it needs quiet time, and our lives today are very short of this, parents need to create it for their children. This means consciously making time and keeping interruptions to a minimum.
The earlier parents can start, the better as it allows the maximum time for their child to grow up with reading and for the love to take root, grow and become part of their life. And what an enriched life that will be!
This information has been taken from the 'National Literacy Trust.'
Please show how you 'Live life in all it's Fullness' at home by signing your reading diary every day. Every time your child reads at home we add a bead to a jar. When our bead jar is full we get to 'buy' some joy to spread within the community. The last time we filled our jar we bought a food parcel for a homeless person in the city.
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