Why our children should read more. The world is a wonderful place. If you teach your children from a young age to read they will have the ability to dream and make their own ideas come to life.
You can give 5 children the same book to read and then ask them what they read. Every child would have formed their own pictures and that is what makes reading so important.
When they just watch television, someone else is thinking for them. When they read a book they can make up their own pictures in their head and they will love it as it makes them very relaxed.
It is very important to teach children to read books because when they get older they have to learn from books.
If they are not good readers, it will become difficult because they never learnt to think for themselves or make up their minds of what is happening.
I always gave my children books to read and they loved it because when they had finished I would ask them to tell me all about it and then they would have a lovely conversation with me as well time that we spend together.
Please let your children read so that they can go all over the world in their heads, without someone else thinking for them.
Reading will become so important to them when they grow up as they cannot work without reading.
They will develop a lovely thinkable brain. It is such a wonderful way to exercise their brain and teach them to think. The younger they are the better.
My grandson who is at university now says he will force his children to read because he never did, and he only realises now how important reading is.
If children do not read they will never learn to write beautiful essays and they will always struggle with writing comprehension tests as they will read without understanding.
When they start young and teach their brain like an exercise to think this will become very easy for them.
When you run or walk or move you are exercising, but if you do not read you will never give your brain any exercise.
Exercising your brain can only be done through thinking and reading. But the most important thing is to know what you are reading and understanding.
I find that today children can all read, as they are taught at school but they do not know or remember what they are reading.
The whole point of reading is remembering and enjoying it. As I said it teaches them to make up their own pictures of what they are reading and this will make them realise that understanding is so important.
Reading is not just being able to read the words in front of them, it is dreaming of what is going to happen and what is written in the book, with understanding.
I really hope you will all let your children read more as it is so good for their personality to develop. I really hope you can make your children read with understanding and it will become fun for them.
I always found that if I let them read series they could not wait to get hold of the next book to find out what happened.
It is so much better than letting them sit in front of the television all the time and watch without thinking and just looking at pictures.
Even playing X box might teach them hand eye coordination but it will never make them learn to read.
With television they never get the chance to exercise their brains and think or dream. I really hope this will work for you as it did for my children as they are still adamant readers.
They just go into their own world and enjoy it so much.
I really hope you have a wonderful reading day, and make use of libraries as that is something that every child should learn to enjoy.
