Let your children fall in love with reading with these six tips

Today is 4.23 World Book Day. At this time of year, I will think of Bai Yansong’s anger: Why should we hold a World Book Day? Because reading is something that is often needed and can be done by everyone, just like eating and drinking. It has actually been reduced to the point of promotion. In many places, during festivals, gongs and drums are played to make reports. Then after the show, everyone went back to their respective homes, each looking for his or her mother, to figure out what to do. Fortunately, our new generation is embracing reading enthusiastically. The popularity of readers means that reading programs that have disappeared from the media for a long time have found a market again. In many communities, scattered community libraries have begun to exist. These are all sparks of hope. I believe that in the near future, there will be a prairie fire. This is inseparable from the efforts of every parent. One World Book Day cannot change a child. But parents who value reading can influence their children to fall in love with reading. Because few children take the initiative to like reading, someone usually has to lead them into the wonderful world of books. And the best teachers are parents! It is of great significance to cultivate children to develop good reading habits from an early age. Good reading habits will benefit children throughout their lives. Many mothers say that their children like watching TV and playing computer games, but do not like reading at all. Therefore, they think that their children lack ambition and are disobedient, and label them as \”not fond of reading.\” In fact, many of children\’s problems are caused by their parents. Whether children have good reading habits is closely related to their parents\’ efforts and attention. Let’s work together to cultivate children’s reading habits! Today I would like to share with you six suggestions, hoping to help children develop the habit of reading early. 1. The reading atmosphere of the family and the example of parents: In a home, if there are no books and no book lovers, it will be difficult for the child to fall in love with reading. If you are only interested in TV series or mobile phones, if you are very impetuous, you will use the excuse of being busy to spend a lot of money to attend second-hand training courses given by some lecturers, but will not calm down and read some books seriously. Then don’t blame your children for not reading, reflect on yourself first. If parents love reading, the family will definitely have a good reading atmosphere. This is the best way to guide children to fall in love with reading. Books suitable for children should be placed as close as possible to children, so that children can read them at any time. It is best to have a fixed reading time of half an hour to an hour every day, and everyone can read together. 2. Hold a small reading party for the children to read with their friends, and invite the children’s friends to come to my home to hold a small reading party. For example, I will invite Xiao Xiaoyu’s cousin who is in elementary school to come to my house to be with him during the summer vacation. read. The two children read very enthusiastically together. Let several children read a book together and discuss the characters in the book together. Then they will play roles, which can also stimulate a kind of self-identity and self-identity in the children. Children all have the desire to express themselves, in order to express themselves more point of view, they will read well, remember something, and then express it. This kind of reading meeting is very beneficial to the growth of children. 3. Don’t talk about the use, read it happily first. This is a suggestion I want to give everyone. A mother asked me the day before yesterday: Fish dad, please recommend some books to my 6-month-old baby, so I recommended a set of visually stimulating wall charts and a set of flip-through interactive books for my child. Then, the mother asked: What is the function of the first kind of book? What is the function of the second kind of book? Why talk about functions? Does reading have to have a function and purpose? I don\’t agree with this. When I choose books for Xiaoyu, I only look at whether the content is interesting, whether it is in line with the child\’s natural development, and whether it is safe and readable. I never felt that I had to achieve a certain goal through a set of books. Of course, some books themselves have some incidental functions, such as \”The Dinosaurs Are Coming: Children\’s Emotion Management Picture Book\”, which can help children understand emotional problems and then manage them. This is a long process, and it is impossible to say that children read A set of books can help you stop getting angry or losing your temper right away. You know, how many parents have read a lot of books, regretted taking a lot of medicine, and still have a bad temper. Therefore, emotional management requires understanding and managing it from an early age. There are also books such as \”My First Set of Mathematical Fairy Tales\” and \”Economics is Fun\”, both of which have their own functions and meet some of the children\’s development requirements. However, we must not choose books for our children because of their functions. Don’t always talk about the usefulness of reading. What’s important is that you read happily first. When the child happily opens this door, we can talk about what books to read to the child, so that the child can learn new things and understand some truths. 4. Prepare enough books for your children and take them to the library often. Nowadays, we all feel that things are too expensive. A trip to the vegetable market for 100 yuan will be gone immediately. Taking your children to eat at KFC is just enough for a meal. Many people are afraid of spending money, but some money should still be spent. For example, spend it on buying books. I always remember that when I was studying, my favorite place to go was the bookstore, the small bookstall at the school gate, and the small bookstore on the old street in the town. I liked to go and have a look. Every time I have to squeeze out some money from my limited living expenses to buy books, and this habit has not changed for many years. When I go to a place to play or do errands, I like to visit the local bookstore, which feels very close to me. It is precisely because of my love for books that I do reading promotion. Why do we need to prepare enough books for children? Recently I discovered something. Xiao Xiaoyu will go to my bookshelf to pick out books, and then read them by himself, so that I can roughly see his interests, such as the \”Busy Wheels Series\” and \”Gogo World\” \”Travel\” often appeared on the bed, so he moved it himself. Because there is a wall in my house where my children and my books are placed. Therefore, he can easily get it and touch various categories, which can avoid \”picky eating\” in reading. When we have enough books, we can guide our children to include astronomy and geography, literature, history, philosophy, novels and essays, and comics and picture books. If you don\’t have enough conditions to give your children enough books, then remember to go to the library often, apply for a card, and own a library of books. Here, Fish Dad would like to remind parents of little babies that having too many books does not mean piling them all in front of their children at once. When reading to children, they should still proceed step by step. Giving 2-5 books at a time is enough.. There are too many and sometimes children don’t know how to choose and are easily distracted. 5. What do you think about respecting children’s nature and choices? What to see? Don\’t worry about whether it\’s fast or slow! I found that many parents have seen the previous few times that Fish Dad said that children should start reading independently when it is time to read independently. It should not always be read by parents. Some parents misunderstood and immediately asked their children to read by themselves. The children cried and clamored for their mothers to read to them, but their mothers refused and said that they should read independently. In fact, every child’s reading ability and understanding level are different. We cannot make one size fits all and must respect the child’s nature. Take independent reading as an example. There can be a transition time. You can change simple parent reading to parent-child reading together, and then encourage the children to read aloud too. Guide your child to read some interesting books within his ability. Independent reading may really start one day, but before that, you should help him improve his reading ability. There is also the issue of book selection. Some mothers say that the books their children choose do not feel good to them, and the children do not like the books they choose. What to do? Then let’s communicate more together and go to the library together. Help children increase their understanding of books, because our knowledge is limited. Before we recognize something, it is basically in vain. Who knew there was a New World before Columbus discovered it? For example, some mothers say that their children only like to read cartoon versions of books, which are the kind of books that simply transfer the contents of cartoons to paper. I suggest that they should not be read to their children frequently. It is still OK as a supplementary book. I recommended \”Three Naughty Bags\” to this mother. It tells the story of a group of cute little friends embarking on a fantasy adventure. The story is novel and interesting. Even I have to read it several times with great interest, but I don\’t believe that my children won\’t like it. When it comes to directing or not caring, parents’ wisdom is needed. 6. Let older children get in touch with classic books as early as possible. A few days ago, we talked about the issue of shallow reading. Now many of us feel that children have limited understanding and cannot read profound books, but for children in the third grade of primary school and above, it can I started reading some classic works of literature to him. Some mothers say that their children should read the four major classics, which are all adaptations, but I do not recommend reading them. One reason is that it is difficult for ordinary parents to grasp the quality of the adaptation due to the level of the adapter. Try to read the original books to your children without any cuts. Some mothers will say that their children can’t read. If they don’t understand, just slow down and don’t be anxious. Of course, don’t underestimate your child’s reading and self-learning abilities. These classic books will continuously improve children\’s reading ability and enter a new level. Classic reading materials for this age group are not a good choice because many new curriculum standards are adapted. However, there are still some classic books that are worth having for children. For example, the \”Youth Nobel Library\” completely presents to children the author\’s words written more than 100 years ago, maintaining the flavor of the original work to the greatest extent, while the subject matter and difficulty of the book are in line with the characteristics of children. There is no shortcut to reading, just read one book at a time. The development of reading ability is a slow process. You cannot let your children read a few books.Have strong reading ability. So this path requires persistence and hard work! Developing children\’s reading habits also requires a lot of effort. One is that our children are exposed to a large amount of information today, and they accept it in many ways. Therefore, this path requires parental supervision and guidance. Many children like to watch TV and receive information through TV. Some children like to play with tablets and receive information while having fun. These are all ways of learning, and they are all fine as long as there is no addiction. As for reading, it is difficult for many children to accept it at once, especially for children who have not been exposed to books when they are 0-3 years old. It is more difficult for them to accept it when they are 3-6 years old, and for those who are 0-6 years old and have not been exposed to picture books. Children, it is more difficult to develop reading habits after entering elementary school. Therefore, the earlier you start reading, the better. The less resistant the child will be and the easier it will be to accept it. When children show that they don’t like reading that much, parents should not put the label of “not a fan of reading” on their children. Instead, we must patiently find ways, actively encourage children, and help children find fun and methods. Reading will not make you rich, nor will it make you the center of attention. It is difficult to help you get high scores, but we can get many new things from there, such as spiritual richness and the soul is no longer lonely. No matter what, please embrace reading, both for your children and for you.