The famous educator Sukhomlinsky once said: A child who does not read is a potentially poor student in learning. However, the "Survey Report on the Current Situation of Reading and Writing in Primary and Secondary Schools (2019)" shows that nearly 70% of primary and secondary school students read less than 1 hour a day, and with the increase of children's age, the number of students who read less than 1 hour a day has increased significantly.
In this regard, many parents expressed great helplessness, they have said that they know the importance of reading for children's learning, but they have tried all kinds of ways to guide their children to read, and in the end it has little effect.
How to stimulate your child's interest in reading? How to make children fall in love with reading? It has almost become a common annoyance for most parents of primary and secondary school students.
Children don't love to read? This is not necessarily their fault, parents should first find the reason from the following aspects:
- Have you ever developed your child's interest in reading?
Children's interests are not innate, and the same is true of reading interests, and cultivating children's interests, like snowballs, is cultivated little by little.
Most children, around the age of 3, begin to take the initiative to ask their parents to tell stories to themselves, and like to read rhymed nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes. Around the age of 4, they will repeatedly flip through their favorite books and tell other people about the books they have read. By the age of 5 or 6, you can concentrate on reading and enjoy discussing the contents of the book with others.
3-6 years old is the best age to cultivate children's interest in reading, if parents miss this golden period, then please grasp the present, understand the child's preferences, choose the right books for the child, and strive to expand the child's reading interest.
- Does it create a good reading atmosphere for children?
The word "scholarly family" is known to many people, and it refers to a family that has been a reader for generations.
Why can reading be passed down from generation to generation? The decisive condition is the reading atmosphere, if you want to make children fall in love with reading, at least there must be a bookish atmosphere at home, there are both study rooms, bookshelves, books for children to read endlessly...
At the beginning of your child's interest in reading, do you put some books suitable for children, want to read books to children, and put them in places that children can easily reach, such as the dining table, bedside, sofa...
Make sure that wherever your child goes, the book follows, and in this "hard-packed" environment where books are everywhere, it is difficult for children to fall in love with reading. On the contrary, if the child does not even have a book in the environment of his childhood, how can he fall in love with reading?
- Is it a good example for children to read?
For children, having books to read anytime and anywhere at home is only the basis for cultivating reading habits, and the parents' reading behavior is the best atmosphere. If parents are at home, in addition to chasing dramas and watching mobile phones is to play cards, then it is difficult for children to calm down and read.
Parents are a mirror of the child, the child is the shadow of the parent, and reading with the child is the easiest way to take the child into the world of reading. There are parents who do not love to read, may wish to reflect on it, when they usually accompany their children, are they all brushing mobile phones and videos?
If you want to have a child who loves to read, from now on, put down the phone, turn off the TV, and act now to read with your child.
- Is there enough time for your child to read?
According to the "Survey Report on the Current Situation of Reading and Writing in Primary and Secondary Schools (2019)", for primary and secondary school students, interest and reading materials are not the key to hindering children's reading, time is the problem.
For preschoolers, most parents think that "children should have fun", and once children enter primary school, their views directly change from having fun to learning. Listen well to lectures, write homework, do exam papers, take interest classes... I just didn't read the extracurricular books well.
Preschool children, when they have a lot of time to read, parents mostly do not pay attention, when the child enters the primary school, especially with the gradual growth of the grade, the academic aggravation, can be used to read less and less time.
Reading is not the same as eating chicken, and reading is not equal to being unhappy. If your child is still young, then please be sure to grasp the time now, read with your child, maybe the joy of children from reading is far more than the joy of playing with toys and watching animations. If your child has already attended primary and secondary school, then please give your child less interest classes, less debut questions for your child, and give your child more free reading time.
Reading can broaden children's horizons, cultivate children's sentiments, cultivate children's temperament, and increase children's knowledge... Over time, you will find that reading brings children far more than brushing up on questions and attending tutoring classes.
Write at the end:
There are no children who are born with a love of reading, and there are no children who are born with no love of reading.
Whether children love to read or not has a direct relationship with their parents' performance.
Therefore, if your child does not like to read, please do not complain and accuse them, it is better to reflect on whether you have done the above 4 when your child is young, if not, then hurry up, after all, start doing it now, it is better than not doing well.
I am a mother who loves to learn, a mother of primary school students, focusing on sharing the knowledge of child psychology and family education, welcome to pay attention to me, and grow together on the road of raising children.