Written by me.
There is no scientific proof to this or non that I know of yet, this information is from my own long observation.
I often hear parents yell at their kids ''you don't read'', and complain to friends ''my child doesn't read I don't know why''. Have you asked yourself a tough question ''do I read?''.
Children are copycats, and they copy most from their parents. If you don't have anything for them to copy, they will copy from their peers causing you some kind of headache. The best ability for your child to learn is, reading. And the probability of that happening is based largely on your own love for reading. Now, there are some kids that are born readers but you shouldn't hope on that.
I learnt to read from my parents. I grew up around my dads tons of books, from classic literatures like Shakespeare, Things fall apart, to technical books like War strategy, Divided we stand united we fall, Roots, endless science fiction books and many more, to my mom's inspirational and religious books and even newspapers. And I read because I'd see them read for hours. That made me and my siblings fall in love with reading. And when they handed books to us we didn't make a fuss about it because they had already read it, and we would want to do same.
My last two siblings started reading newspapers back to back at age six and they do till date. My book of bible story was a big competition as to who could finish reading the entire story first. They even struggle the papers sef, lol. When they hear our parent argue about an article in the papers and they are trying to remember something from it, they remind them. We are all book collectors like our parents.
You can cultivate a good reading habit even if you didn't grow up around books. It will help give your thoughts depth on various things, widen them, refresh your mind and help you fit into any circle as you're well read.
Am not talking about crammed school work o. No!. I mean reading everything. When I was about seven or eight, I embarked on a mission to reading everything that had ink. From biscuit wrapper, to bill boards signs, to akara wrapper, sweets, everything for a whole year. I did that. It helped made me grounded in reading.
You can start like that. Read everything you see, relevant or not. Your mind will store everything and you'd be surprised how some information will come to you when you need it. You can start by reading my blog, lol. Seriously kidding.
Do it for you and your children. I believe reading parents begat reading children.
Cheers.
There is no scientific proof to this or non that I know of yet, this information is from my own long observation.
I often hear parents yell at their kids ''you don't read'', and complain to friends ''my child doesn't read I don't know why''. Have you asked yourself a tough question ''do I read?''.
Children are copycats, and they copy most from their parents. If you don't have anything for them to copy, they will copy from their peers causing you some kind of headache. The best ability for your child to learn is, reading. And the probability of that happening is based largely on your own love for reading. Now, there are some kids that are born readers but you shouldn't hope on that.
I learnt to read from my parents. I grew up around my dads tons of books, from classic literatures like Shakespeare, Things fall apart, to technical books like War strategy, Divided we stand united we fall, Roots, endless science fiction books and many more, to my mom's inspirational and religious books and even newspapers. And I read because I'd see them read for hours. That made me and my siblings fall in love with reading. And when they handed books to us we didn't make a fuss about it because they had already read it, and we would want to do same.
My last two siblings started reading newspapers back to back at age six and they do till date. My book of bible story was a big competition as to who could finish reading the entire story first. They even struggle the papers sef, lol. When they hear our parent argue about an article in the papers and they are trying to remember something from it, they remind them. We are all book collectors like our parents.
You can cultivate a good reading habit even if you didn't grow up around books. It will help give your thoughts depth on various things, widen them, refresh your mind and help you fit into any circle as you're well read.
Am not talking about crammed school work o. No!. I mean reading everything. When I was about seven or eight, I embarked on a mission to reading everything that had ink. From biscuit wrapper, to bill boards signs, to akara wrapper, sweets, everything for a whole year. I did that. It helped made me grounded in reading.
You can start like that. Read everything you see, relevant or not. Your mind will store everything and you'd be surprised how some information will come to you when you need it. You can start by reading my blog, lol. Seriously kidding.
Do it for you and your children. I believe reading parents begat reading children.
Cheers.
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