Reading To Baby
When should I start reading to my baby?
Children's education should start as soon as possible. In fact, it does start, with or without you. Your child is born learning things and growing. They are facing new challenges every day no matter if that challenge is as simple as holding their head up or as challenging as learning to spell their name. One of the most important things for them to experience is reading. Parents often say they would love to read a book before bed, but there are too many other things happening to make time. Nevertheless, this is an important area for your child to grow.
Reading to your child can start as early as you would like. In fact, some parents are reading aloud to their child even before the child is born. In doing so, the child develops some of the very best fundamentals for word development. Perhaps in these first months of life, they will not have any idea what you are saying or what the story is about, but they understand your voice and they also bond with you. Children that are read to at a young age love to be read to later on and they often become very good readers themselves.
By the time your child is saying his or her first words, they can also be enjoying a story. Reading very simple stories to them can help them to broaden their vocabulary and they often will learn to speak faster than other children do. They also do better with speech when reading because they hear the proper sound of letters and words in this way. It is often beneficial to invest time each day for reading as soon as your child reaches this level.
From here, your child is going to start learning to read himself. Many children read to regularly also develop the ability to read earlier in life than those that do not. This establishes a strong fundamental ability to learn and grow from a very young age. Children often will rely on parents for reading skills and for reading abilities. If they do not see mom and dad reading, they will likely have no interest in it themselves.
Reading to your baby is the first step in preparing them to be developed, educated children. Do not overlook the benefit of reading to your child in this way. Make it a way you both bond together.