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Why Reading Important for Children—Part 1: Read or Watch?
Wetin your children like doing when they get free time. They like reading or watching videos? Which one they can usually choose: their phone or book?
For many years now, plenty people not get time for reading because of TV and other thing them they can watch and do online. The book Jane Healy wrote in 1990 they call Endangered Minds say that, ‘Time will come people will stop reading.’
Way back, it was hard to believe the idea that time will come when people will not like reading business. But now, some teachers in countries where people really using technology say that, the way young people use to read way back, it not like that again.
In this article you will learn
Why reading important for children?
Reading can make you to think. For example, when reading story book, think on this question them, how the people who acting in the story voice sounding? How they looking? How the place they acting looking? The person that write the book put something there to help you to think.
One mother name Laura say, “when we watching TV or video, we can only be seeing the way another person can think. Even though we can enjoy watching show, but reading get something special. It can make the things somebody write to be real in your mind.”
Reading can help children to get good qualities. When children know how to read, it can help them to be able to think on problems and know how to solve them. Also, to be able to read, children must learn to pay attention. By doing so, it will help them to control their self, care for other people, and be patient.
Some people who can do research say that when children take their own time to read, it can help them to care for the feelings of the people them that they reading about. And it can help children to show that they care for people in real life.
Reading can make people to think deep. Someone who careful will take their own time to read, even if they have to read it over and over just to understand what the writer mean. Doing that one can help them to remember what they read and benefit from it. —1 Timothy 4:15.
One father name Joseph say: “When you read something the writer say, it easy to think on what he mean, connect it with what you know, and think about the lessons you can learn. But TV and other thing them people can watch online can’t always make people to think deep like that.”
The main point: That true, videos and other thing them people can watch online get their place. But your children will be missing plenty good-good things if they not find time to read.
How you can encourage your children to read
Start soon. One mother name Chloe who get two boy children say: “We started reading to our children from the time I was pregnant for them. And we continue after they were born. We happy that we continue teaching them. And because of that they really like reading business.”
Bible advice: “From infancy you have known the holy writings.”—2 Timothy 3:15.
Make it easy for the children to read. Make sure you get books and other thing them in the house that children can read from. One mother name Tamara who get four children say, “Find books that your child will enjoy reading. Put it to their bed head so it can be easy for them to pick it up and read it.”
Bible advice: “Train a child in the way he should go; even when he grows old he will not depart from it.”—Proverbs 22:6, footnote.
Limit the time they can spend on the Internet. One father name Daniel say, “It good to have one evening where nobody will use their electronic device. He say: “We get one evening in the week where me and my family can’t watch any TV. We can just use that time to read together or on our own.”
Bible advice: “Make sure of the more important things.”—Philippians 1:10.
Set the example. One mother name Karina who get two girl children say, “It good to make the stories you reading to look real to the children. You can do it by the way you read and how you read it. If you like reading business, your children will follow your example.”
Bible advice: “Continue applying yourself to public reading.”—1 Timothy 4:13.
Not all children like reading business. But maybe your encouragement will help them to like reading. One father name David who get two girl children say, “I can read what my daughters like reading. It can make me to know what they really get interest in and what topics I can use to talk with them. We use to be having our small reading group. And we use to enjoy it!”