How to cultivate a baby who loves to read?

How to cultivate a baby who loves to read?

【Time: 2022-05-07】【Source:Guilin Evening News】【Author:Su Wenjuan】【Editor:Deng Da】

In many reading places in the city, children read books seriously, but parents are staring at their mobile phones

What should we do to raise a baby who loves to read?

In a bookstore, children reading books and adults reading mobile phones.

Nowadays, "reading for all" is attracting more and more attention. However, the reporter recently came to some reading places in the city, but found that the situation of "children reading books and parents reading mobile phones" was often staged. Reading is one of the most important things in a person's life, especially in early childhood, and it is necessary to develop good reading habits. In the end, what kind of companion reading is the best, and how to help children develop good habits in companionship?

Children read books Parents look at mobile phones

"If I have saved enough pocket money, I want to buy my mother a copy of Dream of the Red Chamber so she can read with me." This is the "wish" of 8-year-old girl Fifi. Fifi likes to go to the bookstore to read books, and her mother goes with her. But Fifi found that whenever she read a book, her mother "swiped" her mobile phone on the side, and sometimes she called herself, and she couldn't hear her. Fifi complained that her mother did not accompany her, but her mother told Fifi that she was actually reading books on her mobile phone and watching "Dream of the Red Chamber". But in Fifi's view, her mother is looking at her mobile phone and does not read books with herself, so she wants to buy her mother a copy of "Dream of the Red Chamber" that she can read in her hand.

The situation fifi said is actually quite common. Parents now rely heavily on mobile phones, even when reading with their children, the books that can be read in front of them are dazzling, and they may not be able to "free" them from the mobile phone screen.

On World Book Day on April 23, the reporter came to the Xinhua Bookstore in the city center. On that day, there were not many people in the bookstore, and there was only one female parent reading with two children on the second floor. After she told her son not to sit on the ground, she looked down at the phone. After watching for a while, he looked up to find his daughter and told her not to "run around" again. Then the parent began to look down at the phone again.

On the teaching aids and children's book floors, there are more children, who either stand or squat, or simply sit on the ground and read the books in their hands. But among the male parents next to me, one sat on a small stool looking at his phone, and the other leaned against the bookshelf to look at his phone.

A reading corner of the bookstore is full of children who ask their parents to read to themselves, and several parents keep their heads down and focus on their mobile phones. In another reading corner, several adults were reading, but two of them were staring at their phones, which were a book spread out.

In the MixC Sisyphus Bookstore, a similar situation is playing out. The bookstore has a space for children to read, with five or six children sitting on a children's couch and children standing next to the shelves reading. The reporter noticed that after several parents settled their children, they left the children's reading area, chose a corner to open the mobile phone, and a father stood outside the bookstore door and brushed the video.

Reading with children should "lead by example"

For children who complain that their parents are not good at reading with themselves, there are also parents who are "dissatisfied". Ms. Liang, a citizen, said that her son is in the first grade of primary school, and he does not like parents to "point and point" next to him when he reads, and he also has to deal with work at any time, so when he accompanies his children to read, there will be a situation of "son reading books, mother reading mobile phones". Ms. Liang also said that reading books now is not necessarily limited to paper books, in fact, reading e-books is also reading books, and reading social media articles is also "reading".

Associate Professor Jiang Zhongxin, director of the Department of Preschool Education of the Faculty of Education of Guangxi Normal University, said that now the state vigorously advocates reading for all, and from the perspective of early childhood education, the importance of reading is self-evident. Let children develop the interest and habit of reading from an early age, which is very important for children's subsequent learning. From the perspective of family education, in the scene of accompanying their children to read, it is best for parents to lead by example and read with their children, rather than blindly playing mobile phones. Children are young, but their observation of their parents is keen, are you accompanying, or "taking time" to play mobile phones, children look in the eyes and remember.

In addition, some parents are indeed reading literature or e-books, but in their children's cognition and feelings, this is not reading "books". The "book" they understand is a paper product that can be flipped, not something hidden in a mobile phone. The parents' explanation, in their view, is a kind of "sophistry".

Jiang Zhongxin suggested that parents must lead by example, no matter what aspect of parenting. Jiang Zhongxin explained that from the perspective of family education, in addition to "reading", children also need to absorb the love and strength given by their parents in their company. When you put down your phone and read with your child, your child will feel supported and feel empowered by this action.

Develop the "reading ear" and "reading hand" to let life and books collide

Now the whole society is advocating lifelong reading, and Jiang Zhongxin also recognizes this view. He said that people will encounter a lot of confusion in their lives, and the ultimate solution is to expand themselves through learning and eventually get out of the predicament. The value of lifelong learning is here. Children can also continue to improve from reading, improve their cognition, enrich their knowledge structure, and find ways to overcome the barriers in growth.

How to grasp the child's early reading, so that he can develop good reading habits? Jiang Zhongxin suggested that early reading should start at the age of zero. A child's early reading is not just about reading physical books, he should be "reading" nature, "reading" life, and letting the child "read" the world from the side. Let children read, it is necessary to create reading conditions for children, parents should update a understanding, children reading is not stuck in "quiet reading", but in addition to "reading eyes", play the child's "reading ear", "reading hand". In the early reading selection, parents can choose some operable books, such as books that can smell the smell and have a touch, so that children can operate and interact in reading, which is a more suitable way for young children to read.

At the same time, parents should not be too utilitarian, just thinking that reading is to know how many words. Children should be allowed to feel the life situation in a variety of reading, let the life situation collide and dialogue in the book and the painting, experience the joy of reading, and form habits at the same time, and finally obtain knowledge from many aspects and harvest "spiritual food".

Reporter Su Wenjuan Text/Photo

【Source: Guilin Evening News】