10 Benefits of Reading to Your Child?

Of the many benefits reading to children offers, the best benefits are the lasting gifts of hopes, dreams and close relationships with parents. Read to bestow these gifts upon your child and yourself.

Reading to your child intensifies the bond between parent and child. Cuddling and caressing while reading together provide sweetly intimate moments treasured for a lifetime.

Children experience comfort and fun when a parent reads to them. Picking up a book will continuously evoke the positive feelings throughout their lives.

Reading to your child allows imagination and creativity to take wing and fly. Imagination soars when children hear fantastical stories, and the unleashed imagination allows children's creativity to come out and play.

People use Words comfortable to themselves; parents are not an exception. This does not indicate a limited vocabulary but a comfortable one. Reading exposes children to the comfortable vocabulary of many people, which expands their own vocabulary.

Children whose parents read regularly to them tend to achieve better success in school than do children without the same experience. These scholastic achievements lead to higher education and wider career choices.

Reading calms children. The combination of a parent's voice and snuggling lull them after a long day. Children have difficulty resting after the stimulation of a day at school, extracurricular activities and emotional highs and lows. Reading helps them recover.

If your child has a specific interest, reading expands on the pursuit. Reading presents a wonderful opportunity to learn and expand upon an interest a child takes to heart.

Reading to your child offers the opportunity to reinforce a moral or life lesson. A book with narration and illustration often delivers a stronger impact than a parent's Word alone.

Children patiently sit and cuddle while a parent reads a story; the attentiveness increases their attention spans. This subliminal lesson in patience rewards them with the ability to be attentive in the classroom.

Dreams of far-off places and experiences build a desire to reach for the stars, the moon and other worlds. Reading is the starting point of dreams.

Children may not soon appreciate the benefits of your reading to them, but as they mature they will deeply appreciate and thank you for instilling a love of reading.