It’s been too long since I was around little children. There’s great pleasure in sharing your love of words, story and books, especially with children. Some of the many benefits include:
- It’s fun
- Calm a child down, even put them to sleep
- Excite your own and the child’s imaginations
- Deepen your relationship
- Spend quality time together
- Open up subjects which might otherwise be difficult to discuss
- Develop physical and emotional closeness
- Make all kinds of strange noises with impunity
- Read wonderful, magical stories
- Develop your skill at reading aloud
- Exercise your brain and encourage the child to exercise theirs
- Learn about the world and things in it
- Teach necessary life lessons with subtlety
- Improve vocabulary and language skills
- Increase level of concentration
- Develop a love of story and reading
- Learn empathy for others
- Practice reading skills to perfection
- Readers learn to keep themselves amused, never bored
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