How to Encourage Your Child to Read

First and foremost, a child learns how to read through encouragement. Never force a child to read. This could lead to your child resenting reading and seeing it as a chore. Encouraging your children to read can be quite a challenge for every parent, but with perseverance the benfits are huge!

A good starting point to get children to learn how to read, is to start reading to them at an early age. Reading your child a bedtime story is the first step for a child to enjoy reading. From birth, through to the ages of three to five years old, young toddlers are quite curious with just about anything. A perfect chance to expose your child to books

Another reason to start early is at this age children are hungry for attention and affection. So take advantage of this and spend time with them reading a short story book. In doing so, you can help them discover their intellectual curiosity that is like a sponge for stimulation. Now is the time to stimulate that brain with a great book. Believe it or not, the intellectual side of a child slowly degenerates as they grow up. This could be due to many reasons, but exposure to modern gadgets such as cellular phones, MP3's, PSP's, play stations, TV, computers, IPod's and several other items serve as nothing more than a distraction. This is the reason why you can buy textbooks for your child and they remain unopened all throughout the school year and simply stay hidden in the school's locker.

You can start by reading classic childrens books of fiction such as the "Little Red Riding Hood" where you can act out the story while you are telling it as well. This will encourage your child to enjoy the reading experience you are sharing with them. This will also help them to develop their own language and communication skills.

Reading bedtime stories to your children also creates a good bonding relationship between you and helps to relieve the stress from your body and your child's. As you know, reading is form of relaxation for the body. Not only are you relieving your body of stress but you are also helping your child to fall asleep. Reading basically relaxes the eye muscles, thus sleep is induced naturally.

Medical research has shown that children who have been read to and love to read are more emotionally secure and confident with themselves. This means that they can have a higher IQ level in comparison to children who don't like to read.

When it comes to older children. Buying them romance or horror books might not only encourage them to read, but you may well find it helps develop their writing skills. Famous writers have often honed their skills by reading a lot of novels and pocket books during their early life. With the price of university fees increasing across the globe, the ideal present for a college student would be their university books, medical books, law books and business books. Saving them money, so that they can focus on eating more than baked beans!

Reading is a gift that you can give your child. With encouragement from an early age, patience and perseverance you can encourage your child to read, teaching them a life long skill Also it doesn't have to cost you a fortune - you can get many bargain books for as little as 20p through some etailers

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