Children Become Readers On Their Parents’ Laps

Children become readers on their parents’ laps. It is in this place where they learn that opening and closing books can help them travel through new, different and lively worlds.

Because for children and adults, reading is the perfect game for the leisurely afternoons that accompany us throughout our lives. Moments that turn into pulsations and fill our minds and hearts with entertainment and connection.

With a book and your imagination, adventure is guaranteed.

If you learn to travel in a book, you will find a wonderful friend who will plant endless stories with your words in your mind. Because reading offers them the possibility of living a thousand lives,  of finding themselves among someone else’s thoughts, and of getting closer to wonderful reflections.

Because a child who reads will be a thinking adult and, as a result, will move away from habits that demand comfort and speed. This will help her enjoy the possibility of living a thousand lives and exploring a much more plural and diverse world.

Principles that guarantee the formation of readers

A child needs to see how his parents and the people he admires read. Not only that: children become readers in the lap of their people of reference. Let’s take a closer look at this:

• The passion for reading requires a certain personal restlessness. That is, the yearning for knowledge needs to be sown in order to be harvested.
• Reading is an activity that requires contemplation, concentration, silence, isolation and exclusivity.
• Reading also requires patience, as not all stories fall in love from the start.
• Reading becomes more interesting when the surroundings consider it a good topic of conversation.
• Reading is an encounter with complex feelings, with contradictions, and a wonderful thread between imagination and reality.

When a child is able to anticipate all of this in front of a reading, it becomes an extraordinarily enjoyable activity. Not only is she allowed to approach written thought or told stories, but she is motivated to find in the pages of a book her own motivation so that the love that other people have told her about becomes eternal, in her own. . Because no one who liked reading ever stopped liking it afterwards.

Parents, the perfect links between reading and children

Parents, by luck or misfortune, are people of reference for children. In their eyes they are heroes who disguise themselves in everyday clothes to do extraordinary things. In fact, for this to be different, parents need to do everything very poorly.

Therefore, they are able to have an influence over their children greater than anyone else can. But, recognizing this influence, what can you do to help your children read? Let’s look at some ideas.

The first is perhaps obvious but no less important: reading so that your children can do it by simple imitation. Also, it is good that they do it as a public activity, so that they understand that reading should never be a subject to cause shame.

On the other hand, to form readers  you need to put books in their hands. Not the ones you like, but books with different themes so that your child can find their favorite themes. It is not so much that the child reads as it is that the child likes to read, so external rewards are not very well advised. If you apply any, the best is recognition.

Another important measure is to create a time for reading. A relaxed space during the day in which children have no more worries than discovering what is in the book in front of them. To do this, we can take them to the library and share with them on the way back what they read.

A child reads and his knowledge grows

Either way, educating a child in reading is giving him skills and resources so that in the future he preserves this activity as a resource for information, but also for having fun and having a pleasant time. So it’s critical that children don’t just read school books, and that they know there are thousands of stories out there waiting for them.

We need to be aware that the child can start to achieve this from 6 or 7 years old. In the meantime, it is advisable to prepare your paths as readers, filling them with stories and meanings that, in turn, will help us not to lose the enthusiasm for the magic that a children’s book carries. Because without a doubt, reading is a pleasure that should be a habit, especially since childhood.