Builds Positive Relationships

Reading to your little one allows you to bond with your baby. He or she will love listening to your voice. Sitting close together creates feelings of contentment and relaxation. Reading before bedtime or nap time creates an intentional routine that will reap positive benefits for you and your baby.

Build Pre-Literacy Skills

Reading to your baby or toddler is the most important thing you can do with your baby. This creates an opportunity for the little one to hear correct language patterns, structure and grammar usage. When you ask questions while reading, thinking skills are developed and the concentration span is lengthened. Can you see the benefits of reading to your little one prior to school?

Builds a Life-Long Love for Reading

Reading to your baby on a regular basis instills a life long love for reading. When students enter school behind and struggle to read, they become discouraged and unmotivated to read. This creates a battle all the way through school. Reading to your little one helps create a positive attitude about reading.

Builds their Imagination and Develops Creativity

When children listen to the stories being read to them, they are limited to just the pictures to explain the detail, therefore, they are more apt to use their imagination to elaborate details of the story being read. Imagination and creativity are skills needed in school, particularly in the area of writing. Reading books can take you and your little one to places far away through the avenue of your imagination.

Builds their Vocabulary

The more you read to your baby the more vocabulary will be exposed. Building your child’s vocabulary gives them a huge intellectual advantage. Children with large vocabularies are able to understand things better, overall. Particularly when entering school and adjusting to new rules, authority and routine.

Builds the Social and Emotional Understanding of New Topics

Reading a book about a new event or experience that may occur introduces little ones to social and emotional topics that can be overwhelming and difficult to understand. Books about potty training, new siblings, death of a pet or new school will introduce and create conversation about events in their lives that can be challenging socially and emotionally.

From the words of Dr. Seuss

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn the more places you’ll go!” – from I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

How often do you read to your baby or toddler? Would you like more information about developing your baby’s brain? Click here to get the free guide, INFANT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT TIPS.