You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.