Health professionals have long since ceased to be only people who attended to the disease to promote a good state of health at different levels (talking about food, sleep and even habits and education) and for this reason not only they advise at the level of health and illness, but also at the level of learning and relationship with parents.
A very clear example is the one that they will soon adopt US pediatricians, which in your queries will begin to recommend that all parents read to their children every day, with the objective of promoting children's language development and strengthening the relationship between parents and children.
As explained by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), less than half of the children sit with their parents for them to read stories. This makes every year more than a third of children start school with some language skills still underdeveloped, which makes them have difficulty communicating fluently with teachers, with other children, and that makes the task of starting to teach them to read and write more difficult.
It is not that they will not learn to do it, all children end up reading and writing, but they have seen a relationship between the mastery of reading in children in the third year (I understand that it is when they are 5-6 years old) and if they will be able to graduate in high school or they will succeed in their career.
But in other countries they start reading later ...
In the US, as I say, they have seen that children who do not master reading in third have more problems the rest of their schooling. The question I have is whether it will be causal, if not knowing how to read well as a child is what generates that difficulty when graduating or if it is a different matter. Perhaps the level of family income, the socio-economic situation or the love or lack of love you have at home for books, or the culture of effort and work, are the real causes that children have problems reading and when they are older Problems to graduate.
And I say this because in many European countries children reach 6-7 years without knowing how to read and that does not mean any difficulty in the future. On the contrary, they are the ones that best dominate after reading, but they are because both parents and educational systems give much importance to books, to enjoy reading and to enhance learning through innate curiosity. of the kids.
But reading to children is good, isn't it?
By this I mean that in the US, as in Spain, they have a problem of school results and consider that knowing how to read before will solve it. That is probably not the main problem, as I have said, because everything could be in "the place that books have in society" and "how we motivate children to learn", but we will not criticize the solution either, because reading to children is good and because, in fact, it serves to improve the first problem: the lack of attention or passion of families towards writing.
Reading to children provides babies and children with words they know and words they don't know. They listen to their parents' voice, listen to stories, listen to problems, dialogues, solutions and also spend time with their parents. Reading to children is undoubtedly one of the most enriching activities that exist.
As we said a while ago, the best way for children to learn to speak and develop language is to speak to them, to speak words to them. Well, reading them is a great way to talk to them.
They also like it, they have fun, they want us to read them the same stories over and over again, they learn, they spend time with us and all this will surely result from a love of reading that will never disappear if we continue to buy them books, if they see us Read to us and if we continue reading with them, we let them read or comment on the stories.
