Top 11 Reasons to Read to your Child
- Because when you hold hold them and given them this attention, they know you love them.
- Because reading to them will encourage them to become readers.
- Because children’s books today are so good that they are fun, even for adults.
- Children’s books’ illustrations often rank with the best, giving them a lifelong feeling for good art.
- Books are one way of passing on your moral values to them.
- Readers know how to put themselves in others’ shoes.
- Because until they learn to read themselves, they will think you are magic.
- Because every teacher and librarian they ever encounter will thank you.
- Because it is nostalgic.
- Because, for that short space of time, they will stay clean and quiet.
- Because if you do, they may then let you read in peace.
