Why children should listen to stories

How does your child fall asleep? Is it listening to the story to fall asleep, or parents humming a hypnotic song to fall asleep? Some moms may ask: What does it matter if you listen to a story or not, as long as you get your bear to sleep?

Of course it does! According to the Daily Mail, the American Academy of Pediatrics has called for the habit of reading bedtime stories to children from infancy, which plays an important role in children's academic performance later in life.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Early Childhood Education, chairman of the Seattle pediatrician Dr. Dennett Grassi, believes that if the preschool (6 years old) children, often listen to their parents read bedtime stories, a direct impact on the child's performance in kindergarten after the academic performance as well as school after the academic performance. For this reason, new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that for infants, literacy can begin with swaddling. Things like rhyming limericks, smooth children's songs, and talking to your child are all appropriate for expanding children's early vocabulary and developing communication skills.

We often see in American TV shows that bedtime stories accompany American children to sleep. No, in fact, the 2011-2012 U.S. National Survey of Children's Health showed that for children ages 0-5, the percentage of American families who insisted on reading bedtime stories to their children every day was only 33%. And the more affluent families, adhere to the proportion of reading bedtime stories, and higher than the proportion of ordinary families. Higher-income families read bedtime stories to 60 percent of parents.

This shows that the wealthier the family, the more they emphasize the early development of the child's intellect and brain.

We often say that 3 years old to see old, many parents do not understand, 0 ~ 3 years old what is the real task? Definitely not early education classes, early learning to recognize words, learning math, but the development of language.

American sociologists did a census in the 1980s, and they found that the children of upper-middle-class families and the children of families at the bottom of the social ladder had half the vocabulary at the age of three. Let's say, for example, that a child from a wealthy family says, "The Great Wall is a great wall. And a child from a lower class family would say, "The Great Wall, why are you so long?

Why the difference? Researchers put monitors on the participating children and found that families above the middle class can say more than 30 million words to children aged 0 to 3 years old. The constant repetition and stimulation of language promotes brain development, which ultimately leads to children being ahead.

Child psychologists call this difference in vocabulary Word Gap and believe that it is the gap in a child's vocabulary at age 3 that leads to the gap in the child's adulthood.

So what's the best early education - when parents talk to their children more.

From the point of view of child development, just before bedtime is the golden time when the human brain's memory is the clearest and strongest. And 1~3 years old for the brain intellectual development of the best time, if the child before bedtime to tell a story, perhaps the parents childhood experience, perhaps the mother adapted a certain fairy tale, really can let the child benefit for life. Listening is one of the most effective ways for children to improve their language skills and acquire knowledge!

What are the benefits of telling your child a story at bedtime?

Mom telling bedtime stories to her baby can improve the child's language skills, ease the baby's psychological problems, and deepen the communication and exchange between mom and dad and their children, which has many benefits.

What things should I pay attention to when I tell my child a story? What are the methods and essentials? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty and get out of the way.

Help the nervous system development: improve the child's language skills.

Cultivate good habits: or correct problems in his development.

Solve parenting problems: through storytelling you can alleviate your baby's psychological problems.

Learning knowledge happily: babies usually learn a lot of knowledge in stories.

Shaping good character: let the baby gradually know right and wrong, recognize beauty and ugliness, and understand things.

Benefits in detail

Benefit one: it is the "glue" that enhances the bond

In the process of parents "speaking" and children "listening".

In the process of parents "speak" and children "listen", the communication and exchange between parents and children since

However, the deepening of the child has been psychological and spiritual satisfaction, so as to produce a sense of security.

It can be said that a bedtime story is an indispensable nutrient for a child's mental health; in contrast, letting a child watch too much TV alone can inhibit parent-child communication.

Benefit #2: Helps your child grow

It's the only way they'll remember new concepts and vocabulary. Every time he listens to a story, he notices new

details, and the more the story is repeated, the easier it is for the baby to remember that information.

When a child is entertained and excited by a bedtime story, it's a sign that he understands what's going on in the story. Because of this

storytelling helps to improve your child's understanding.

Benefit 3: Enriching Knowledge and Expanding Horizons

When parents tell stories, they are bound to involve some scientific knowledge, such as certain natural phenomena, life and

the origin of the earth, etc., which is meaningful for children to be able to look at life and death correctly.

Benefit #4: Enhance your child's memory

There is also scientific evidence to suggest that a child's ability to absorb knowledge before going to bed is at its peak! By telling

stories to increase the baby's memory material, the baby will remember a lot of things without realizing it.

Principles of bedtime storytelling for children

One: rich voice

A moderate change in your voice while telling a story will definitely sound more vivid.

For example, the sound of a train whining or a car beeping, a puppy barking or a kitten meowing, can all be used in your storytelling. "

You can use different onomatopoeic sounds to represent these sounds, rather than just pronouncing the words.

Similarly, Daddy's voice should sound different from Grandma's. If parents can adequately express emotions such as pleasure

pleasure, anger, disappointment, and sadness, bedtime stories can be just as exciting as radio dramas.

Two: Tales of tranquility

Climactic stories can certainly get a child's attention, but they are also prone to over-excitement and are not suitable for bedtime

telling.

In order to get your child to sleep, it's best to pick a story that has a sense of stability and a calm plot, so your child doesn't

get more and more excited as he or she listens to it.

When parents tell a story, they should make it a peaceful one and adjust the content of the story according to the child's age and mental development.

Three: love and patience

If your child fell asleep before the end of yesterday's story, it's best to tell the story tonight with a "Previously On" so that your child can connect with the story in an appropriate way. In the process of telling the child may have questions, this time you should first for the child to explain, and then continue, do not say "do not ask now, wait for the end of the story and then tell you", that is the least clever. Remember, love and patience are equally important.

Four: Moderate adaptation

The storyline can be moderately adapted, the child's absorption capacity and interest are different, parents can try to understand the scope of the child's ability, and then a small change in the content of the story. For example, some of the foreign stories of the protagonists of the name of the foreign flavor, may be changed to the name of the neighborhood children, the child will sound more intimate.

Also, it is important to understand what stories babies like, and to tell stories that young children like will of course make babies more willing to accept them

The real story around:

@Dora:

I don't know if storytelling is a way to develop your potential, but I'm glad that my child was born without a smartphone and without Internet TV. Every day after dinner with her in the neighborhood games to play, and then go home to paint origami puzzles to play blocks, and finally, the last thing I do is to go to bed with her and tell her fairy tales, and it's always the same books, the same stories, and the child never gets tired of listening to them.

So much so that, you speak on the sentence she can pick up the next sentence, from the age of one and a half years old until four and a half years old, and one day she suddenly can read out the story of Cinderella word for word, all the words individually point will recognize, it is really a big surprise!

After that, the family began to buy a lot of books, and the opportunity for me to tell stories became less and less, because she was able to read completely independently. She was basically at the top of her class in elementary school, and now she's preparing for her first year, so I hope that the reading foundation that I gave her as a toddler will help her get through the middle and high school exams.

It really does work though, preschool can read books read by adults without phonics, and finished The Count of Monte Cristo in first grade. Even some of my books on sales he read. Now in first grade, he holds a book and reads it every day as long as he has time, composes well in language and knows a lot in all areas.

@Miao Miao: my son is eight years old, from when I started to tell, I can not remember. I will tell all the stories, sometimes my son will tell me.