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Red Riding Hood Will Make You a Genius
p3skyking
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For a decade I have been an advocate of reading to children, especially before school age.
My grandmother read to me from age three and it instilled a desire in me to be able to decypher these things she called books myself.
It developed into a voracious appetite for reading and my rainy days were a welcome respite from playing in the dirt.
Now the left calls it an unfair advantage. [:o)]
The read to people are much brighter than the people that weren't.
If someone read to you as a child, count yourself a lucky person. You're probably not a loser. [;)]
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/reading-to-children-at-bedtime-abc-questions-value-of-timehonoured-practice/news-story/e4560b5f36eed53efe9f894c5fa44289
https://youtu.be/pg8c1_RxymM
My grandmother read to me from age three and it instilled a desire in me to be able to decypher these things she called books myself.
It developed into a voracious appetite for reading and my rainy days were a welcome respite from playing in the dirt.
Now the left calls it an unfair advantage. [:o)]
The read to people are much brighter than the people that weren't.
If someone read to you as a child, count yourself a lucky person. You're probably not a loser. [;)]
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/reading-to-children-at-bedtime-abc-questions-value-of-timehonoured-practice/news-story/e4560b5f36eed53efe9f894c5fa44289
https://youtu.be/pg8c1_RxymM
Comments
The article misspelled "ONION". They spelled it "The Daily Telegraph". Surely this has to be a joke.
Jim, the whole * world has gone nuts. This is from Down Under, convict stock, but I assure you, this isn't Dickens Cider. [:p]
The article misspelled "ONION". They spelled it "The Daily Telegraph". Surely this has to be a joke.
The only joke is the suggestion that parents stop reading to their children to level the playing field.
We read to our daughter starting at an early age. By 2 1/2 years she started to read to us. Really! This past Saturday, she was graduated from Michigan State's College of Human Medicine. She earned her place in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society for Medicine and received the Gold Humanism Honor Society award. Next she be in residency at Brown University to triple board in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child Psychiatry. She was the only one in her class to sign up for a triple board.
Leveling the playing field by not reading to them is for the gullible, liberal parents.
Reading and the imagination required to listen are fundamental to learning.
Kids have tablets, phones, gadgets and devices that the progliblefties claim are better than books; it tells you time, and shows you pictures that may or may not be appropriate, it's a phone, you can annoy others worldwide at all times of day or night, it has a flashlight.
Books and reading help develop a mind capable of following a story line, and predicting the outcome. Videos pack brains with useless, easily forgotten crap.
I'd bet the kids like getting bedtime stories more than watching TV.