A Must Read for Parents
May 11th, 2010 | by admin |If you’re a parent and want to encourage your children to learn to read, there’s one very simple thing you can do for them. Make time, when they’re young, to sit and read to them, and read with them. Make some of their cherished childhood memories ones of sitting in Mom or Dad’s lap and being read to while it’s comfy and warm; this helps build the association between reading and curiosity and reading and knowledge, while giving good parental bonding too.
If you know of an older person – a teenager or adult – who cannot read, approach them on it and connect them with the Literacy Council of the United States which offers free adult reading education programs, most of them phonics based, and with curriculum that are geared towards practical knowledge. It’s a gift that keeps on giving, in job opportunities, and in helping their children appreciate the benefits of reading.