Turn Your House Into a Reader Happy Place With Few Easy Tricks
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Every modern parent knows how important reading is for his child. So, it’s only normal to incite reading as much as possible. One of the best ways for this is to…
Create a reader friendly environment. Let’s see how you can easily turn your house into environment that will make your child enjoy reading. One of the best ways to incite a reading is…
Atmosphere. Every day your child should have enough time for reading and writing. There shouldn’t be any noises that could distract her. No TV, no video games etc. Speaking of that…
Limit time your child spends in front of computer, TV, playing video games. Those are great ways to have fun and kids can have moderate benefit from them. Some may argue that it is very important that children become technology savvy. But never underestimate the importance of reading and learning from books. So, make sure your child has time to read. Also…
Try reading together. Ask your child to read you his favorite book or magazine…or any text. Make a habit of sitting together and reading your favorite book in peace and harmony. Turn this into a little tradition of yours. This is also important because…
Your child will see you read and automatically see this as a good thing. A proactive parent knows how important it is to be a role model to his child.
And try to make reading appealing. Areas where your child reads should have good lighting. Your child should feel good in the environment she reads in. Put your child’s artwork on the walls. And make sure you have a cd or mp3 player nearby for audio books. And don’t just stop there…
Encourage your kid to create the reading. You can talk with your child about the story she just read. However, sometimes you just don’t have time. After all, you are a bussy parent. So…
Occupy your child. Ask him to draw characters or situations from the stories she read. If he she really likes drawing, ask her to make a picture book of her own. Then, when it’s finished, she can read it to you.
This is an awesome way to save yourself some time, and encourage your child to express himself in a creative way. Another important thing is to…
Keep reading material handy. What use can your child have from it if he can’t reach it. Sturdy books should be on the lowest shelves, or among toys for easy exploration. If your child is still very young, she will probably show a ‘’lot of love’’ to those books. This means those books will get sticky, dirty and dog-eared . And this is normal…
Touching and playing with books is a great way to encourage your child’s relationship with books. With that in mind, keep fragile and more expensive books on higher shelves. You can always take them down and read it with your child.
Keep a good mix. Although, you probably know already what type of picture books suit your child the most, there is no reason to limit reading materials to books only. Your kid will most probably enjoy:
- Magazine (preferably for kids)
- Postcards
- Photo albums
- Audio books
- Comic books
- The internet
In appropriate moment, a well placed magazine can be a nice, helpful distraction for your child. Keep reading material near comfy sofas and chairs. You can cuddle up there and read a post feeding or pre-nap story.
As you can see, you don’t have to invest much time, money and energy to encourage your child to read. With these few tips, you can turn your kid into a happy little reader.
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