Bedtime Story – A Simple Way to Help Your Child Learn How to Read
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Reading a bedtime story to our child at an early age can greatly motivate your children to learn how to read at an early age. There are many things parents can do to help children succeed in school. Some parents even begin reading aloud bedtime stories to their children during infancy until they fall asleep. Reading to your children contributes enormously to develop your baby’s attention span and receptive language skills. Do not stop, even if your child reaches reading age because hearing a good book read aloud (with all the correct pronunciations and enunciations) is a totally different and enlightening experience for children.
Another advantage of reading bedtime stories to your children is that it allows them to concentrate more on the descriptive passages and the action instead of struggling with understanding every single word. It also gives children a wider exposure because they can hear stories beyond their current reading level, besides it also establishes a wonderful sharing experience between parent and child.
Encourage your child to read independently and use public libraries. Motivate them to participate in public library activities and programs like story hours, films, and summer reading clubs.
How Bedtime Stories Can Benefit Or Harm Child Development
For generations, parents have known that bedtime stories help kids relax and fall asleep more easily. They can also help develop reading skills and emotional child development, but you may not be aware that they also act as a form of hypnosis. Delta being the longest and slowest brainwave at 0.5 – 4 Hz, while Beta brainwaves are much shorter and faster at 13 – 30 Hz.
As adults we spend most of our waking, consciousness in the alert Beta state. When a child is between the ages of 2 and 6, their brainwaves are predominantly in the Theta state, which helps explains their rich imagination and creativity at this stage of child development.
From six to twelve years of age, children’s brainwaves accelerate to the Alpha state.
As adults the Alpha state occurs when we meditate, daydream or enter the lighter states of hypnosis or highway hypnosis as you may have experienced when you drift off when driving a familiar route.
Children between 2 and 12 therefore, are typically in the same brainwave states as adults are when in hypnosis, meditation or day dreaming. says Sandra Dye, Psychotherapist and Child Expert, Developer of the: 5-Step Parenting System – Stay Connected To Have Influence.
Are you for example through bedtime stories, suggesting to your children that the world is full of opportunity or a scary place?
The Financial Fairy Tales series of books for example have been written to help empower children through the discovery of positive values and life affirming messages around money and business.
Positive, empowering messages will create positive, empowering beliefs.
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