Do Read Bedtime Stories to Children

Don’t underestimate them if you are a parent and want your children to do well at school and in life!  Reading to your children will encourage them to get the imagination going = visualize the content of what you’re reading to them.  This will help develop their visual memory which will be useful at school for spelling, reading comprehension, learning lists, and any kind of dealing with numbers and mental arithmetic.

And don’t be afraid to boldly ask your children what they visualized!   Asking them about their experience = getting to know their ways of thinking.  Very few parents bother to ask their children what the character from the story looked like or was wearing when the children imagined her!  And these very parents who never think to ask are later surprised when they find out that their child has trouble spelling, reading, remembering what the reading was about, writing, or even math.  Well, if you don’t ask, you won’t know.  And if you don’t know, you don’t know your child.  No wonder then that discovering these differences comes as a big shock!

So keep asking – about everything!  Where and when did what happen, how, why, and who with whom made it happen?  Who and what else was there, colors, places, indoors or outdoors, things the characters had on or with them, etc.

And if you have a nanny who generally does the bedtime story reading, show her this article, ensure she understands its point, and train her to interact with your children too!

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