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Posted on 09/29/2015 10:44:38 AM PDT by samtheman
A recent survey, by YouGov for the children’s publisher Scholastic, revealed last week that many parents stop reading to their children when they become independent readers, even if the child isn’t ready to lose their bedtime story. The study found that 83% of children enjoyed being read aloud to, with 68% describing it as a special time with their parents. (“It felt so warm, so spirit-rising,” as one 11-year-old boy put it.)
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Just posting this as a general interest piece on a subject with I care strongly about.
My mom read to me. Thanks Mom.
My mom read to us kids too. I can’t remember until what age.
I read to my Goddaughter. She’s a surgeon.
The least they could do is tell which story is the key.
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I agree. We have a lot of kids, and for many years I read aloud to them every evening, until they went off to college. When they got older we read books like The Lord of the Rings. I think the last book I read to any of them (they’re all graduated from college now) was The Odyssey. They loved that.
In fact, one of my sons just had a little boy about six weeks ago, and they decided to name him Ulysses, or Uly for short.
Nice story. Thanks.
As I got older, my Dad read me all the books I had in the room then he started with “Ok well did you hear about the story of this prince named Luke Skywalker and evil king Darth Vader?”
Honestly my parents did read much to me, and I was fairly inconsistent with doing it for my own kids...
And I can still read :)
I suspect the correlation they are finding is not causal. Its probably true that a parent who reads to a child will also be more involved in school, etc., and that is likely the real reason those kids can read better.
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We read to all of our kids. My wife read to them even at a fairly old age (like 12) when they all wanted to read the book (and my wife wanted to read it too). I think the Harry Potter books were done that way.
My one daughter is reading “East of Eden” for the second time right now.
I would make up bedtime stories with all three of them crowded around. They started off simple, and then evolved into one long story with entertwined characters with the kids telling me who came along next in the story. They had better memories than me so they helped me keep track, as the story would become months long.
Makes for an interesting story when you have Huck Finn, Superman, Snow White, Paul Bunyan and a Bigfoot all in the same scene!
I read to my son for many years (even after he could read on his own). His favorites that I read aloud were Herman cartoons and he claims that his good vocab was due to reading Garfield. I also read Uncle Remus tales and Confederacy of Dunces in dialect. He particularly loved that.
Heather Has Two Mommies.
Was Bedtime Reading to children condemned as White Privilege about four months ago?
I read the Sunday funnies to my 5 month old daughter and then her 2 sisters.
Naturally, she couldn’t read, but became fascinated by my finger moving over the brightly colored paper. As she bagan to talk, her mastery of words was amazing.
It was the same with the other 2 girls, and all three became “top of the class” students. As much money was spent on children’s books as on kid’s toys and it showed.
I am so pleased to say the pattern was followed and the grandchildren are what any grandparent prays for.
My mother and father never read to me when I was a child back in the 40’s.
I read anywhere between 5 and 15 books a month, either from the library or online. My two brothers and sister are (or were - Lily, we miss you) the same way.
I used to read to my son every night (he’s 29 now); I think I enjoyed the stories more than he did, and he enjoyed them a lot! Some of my favorites were The Diggingest Dog, Little Black a Pony, Highlights and Boys Life magazines and anything else I could find that I thought he would like. Can’t say for sure whether it helped or not (kid has had his ups and downs and continues to struggle with some issues) but I know it sure helped me.
I read some books to my boy (now 49 yrs. old) until I memorized them.
BOBBY HAD A NICKEL
Bobby had a nickel -
All his very own -
Should he buy some candy,
Or an ice-cream cone?
Then - there was always “Candyland” if you got tired of little Bobby’s antics.
When he napped, I cracked pecans and made a pecan pie.
Then, too, I actually made him a lighted gingerbread house.
Then, we went for a walk across the bridge down the road from our house.
Hug your kids today! - or your grandkids! or even your pets.
Actually, the “bedtime story” is a co-result with literacy - a caring parent.
It surely was a privilege to read to my son. Now that he’s at college I’ve started reading poetry to the puppy: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and he seems to enjoy it too. I guess that will be outlawed one day as well!
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