The benefits of reading to children are much more powerful than we think. Our company reassures them and hearing our voice helps them to better sleep, but there are many more advantages behind this simple habit.
Although there are parents who read their children often and enjoy it a lot, it is seen as an activity of moms, so to encourage you a little more we tell you three good reasons why parents should read stories to children.
Improve language development
A recent study by Harvard University analyzed the same situation with parents and mothers and states that the benefits of reading are greater when it is dad who reads stories to children.
After a year of reading by the parents, the language of the children was evaluated and an important impact was found in the development of their language, more than when mom reads, and especially when they start reading before two years. They also found that the benefits are greater when it comes to girls.
Foster children's imagination
The way to interact in reading is different in each one. While mothers tend to be more schematic when reading, according to the same research, parents tend to be more unstructured.
In line with reading, parents ask more abstract questions than provoke more imaginative answers by children.
For example, "Oh, look, a ladder. Do you remember when I had that ladder in my truck?" Questions like this encourages them to use their imagination and cognitively is a more challenging experience.
Strengthens the father-son bond
Story time is a golden opportunity that you have to share together a few minutes a day and strengthen the bond with your children.
Reading is very beneficial from the cognitive point of view, for the development of the imagination and the acquisition of language, as we said before, but it is also from an emotional point of view. Foster a special complicity with dad.
In this case it does not matter so much the story that is read as who reads it. By reading them aloud we create moments shared with our children of great emotional value. And if one day there is no desire to read, it is also worth inventing stories, riddles or telling confidences, the case is to share a time with them.
Who reads the stories at home: mom, dad or both? The lack of time makes us lose this beautiful habit of reading to children (only 13 percent of parents read stories to their children at night), but it is worth it take a ten minute gap in the family routine to enjoy this experience with the children.
