Set a weekly reading goal with your child!
We suggest you start the year off right with a copy of "A Heart Ready to Fly!" from the GiggleHeart Adventures!
http://www.giggleheart.com
Here are some benefits of reading to your kid: (pasted from http://www.raisesmartkid.com/articles/the-benefits-of-reading-to-your-child.html )
- Reading to your kid makes you bond with him, and this gives your child a sense of intimacy and well-being.
- The intimacy of reading to your kid is such a pleasurable experience to him that he will have a positive attitude towards reading as he grows up.
- It calms your child, especially when he is fretful and restless.
- It promotes increased communication between you and your child.
- Pre-school children who are exposed to language by hearing words that are read to him and in conversation tend to do well in school.
- It promotes longer attention span, which is an important skill for your kid to be able to concentrate.
- It builds listening skills and imagination.
- Your young child learns about colors, shapes, numbers, and letters, while your older child discovers an expanding chain of knowledge. His interest in cars, for example, will expand to his interest in trucks, and other transportation like planes and rockets, and soon he will be reading about outer space, science and technology, and so forth.
- Books teach your child about relationships, situations, personalities, and what is good and what is bad in the world he lives in. Fantasy books provide material for his imagination and free play. Fairy tales fascinate your kid, and help him distinguish between what is real and what is not.
