The WM Parenting Connection

• So what are the benefits to reading with your kids?
  Reading to your children provides bonding time; when it is just you, your child and a book.


• Reading aloud to your children helps build their language skills, helps build their vocabulary.


• Reading helps to build a connection between the printed and the spoken word.


• Reading aloud to your children helps build their listening skills.


• Reading to your child enhances their imagination; it helps bring children into an exciting, adventurous world. They can go anywhere, be anything, do anything in a book.
  

On a personal level, reading allows me an escape route. When I feel stressed from life in general or need a "mental break" reading gives this to me. I can be someone else for a while and take a break from my own life.

Encourage your children to read different types of books. I am absolutely sure that when my two middle children happen upon the genre that "hooks" them into reading they will come to love reading as much as I do -- well maybe not that much -- but enough for it to be an enjoyable experience instead of something that they do because Mom insists.

For more information on the benefits of reading aloud to your children and how to encourage them to learn to read on their own check out http://www.blogger.com/www.brainy_child.com.

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