Have You Stopped Reading To Your Children?
The ability to read is the single most important factor in a child’s education. It is one of the easiest areas in which a parent can help at home using one of the reading games now available to help. Yet 67% of all parents don’t bother reading aloud with their children. Only 33% read with their children daily and the majority are mothers. Dad’s have given up or never started to help in the first place.
These startling figures have been revealed by Booktrust, a charity that promotes reading. They also established the drop off rate is alarming declining from 43% to 37% in the last two years.
Almost 25% rarely or never read with their children. And in the place of reading is TV. A further oddity is that the older the parent the least likely they are to read to their children. 75% of mothers aged 25 - 34 read to their children but this drops to 60% with mothers aged 35-44 and down to 33% if they are 45-54 yeard old.
In order to excel in school reading is an absolute must. Practice helps significantly and the easiest way is with your parents at home. There are some great online books that feature animations to help with the reading.
