Reading Books to Children

Learn Why Books Are Important for Your Baby’s Development

Find Books That Catch Your Child’s Attention to Keep Them Interested in Reading

As your baby becomes more interested in looking at books, you will find that they like brightly colored books that have shapes, animals, numbers, ect.  These types of books are great for introducing new vocabulary words to your child’s memory bank.  Remember you don’t have to read your child the entire book to be beneficial if your child is restless and shows signs that he or she isn’t interested.  You want your child to develop a love for reading, love the connection that reading develops, and enjoy listening to your voice.

Benefits to Introducing Reading at an Early Age

Reading helps develop your child’s receptive language skills that are an important part of learning how to communicate.  Also, reading helps increase their vocabulary.  Many kids love the routine, interaction, cuddles, and attention that they receive while they are being read too.  Toddlers love interactive story time.  So it is important to find ways to involve them during story time.  You can ask them questions about pictures in the book or find a way to relate the story to real life scenarios.  Also, you can ask your child to point out objects in the book that they are familiar with such as where is the dog or ball?

Do you enjoy reading to your child?

Comments

16 responses to “Learn Why Books Are Important for Your Baby’s Development”

  1. Carla J Gardiner Avatar

    With the birth of my newest grandson, number 5 we are adding to our children’s library. These are great recommendations.

    1. Christy Avatar

      Thank you Carla. 🙂

  2. Erin Avatar

    What a great post! It is so important to read to your children, and let them start reading and looking at books as early as possible! 🙂 Its so important to introduce reading to children at an early age!

    1. Christy Avatar

      I agree Erin thank you for sharing.

  3. Carele Belanger Avatar

    How interesting this is! Thank you for sharing it. I do believe that books are important for babies. wow!

    1. Christy Avatar

      Thank you for visiting Carele.

  4. Cindy Taylor Avatar

    So true!! It is so important to read to babies. I was with Usborne Books for 16 years and spent lots of time sharing with new moms how critical this is…moms often just don’t know! Thanks for getting the word out there!

    1. Christy Avatar

      Kudos for taking the time to help new moms Cindy.

  5. Tom Holmberg Avatar

    Nice post and reading list for a child’s development. I don’t have kids but I will pass it on to friends that do

    1. Christy Avatar

      Thank you for sharing Tom, I appreciate it.

  6. Meire Weishaupt Avatar

    I think that is extremely important to create the habit of reading to the children. It looks like you are doing an awesome job!

    1. Christy Avatar

      Thank you for visiting Meire.

  7. Carl Mason-Liebenberg Avatar

    No kids here but I can certainly believe in the value of reading to kids..even during pregnancy…

    1. Christy Avatar

      Thank you for sharing Carl.

  8. Delia @ Blog Formatting Avatar

    Great book recommendations, thanks for sharing! I read to my daughters from a very early age and even now they sometime like to be read to 🙂 It’s a great way of spending time together as a family!

    1. Christy Avatar

      Thank you Delia.