Encourage your child to read

Why many children refuse to read?

Why do they treat reading as a punishment?

 Why children do not enjoy reading?

The more children read, the better readers they become and what the most important is they start enoy reading. But how to encourage your children to read more?

1. Children MUST see their parents reading. There is no way that a child will be passionate about books and will read a lot when parents don't read.
2. Leave different types of books and magazines around the house.
3. Use your child's hobby or interests as starting point and pick books and magazines about it - children like reading about what they are interested in!
4. Bring your children to library, let them look at the books and pick one or two each week and then maybe read them together?
5. Tell your children about good book you have read. Maybe they will be happy to do the same?
6. Bedtime stories, reading Nursery Rhymes for small children will encourage them to read books in the future. It is important to start reading to your children as early as possible.
7. Encourage your child to read aloud! Show interest to what your child is reading whether it is a book, story or a joke!
8. Put a nice shelf in your child's room where all the books can be stored.
9. If you want to give your child a gift - give a book about your child's interests. Child will be more keen to read it than something completely new.
10. Your child read a book about zoo animals? Go to the zoo and  your child will be able to tell you a story about each animal, use it as a game. Your child is reading a book and you know about film based on this story? Why not promise to go watch it together when child will finish a book?

There are countless opportunities for your child to read like menu in the restaurant, road sign, advertisements, food labels or leaflets. Every child has some interests and will be happy to read more about them. Have you any other tips on how to encourage children to read? Maybe your child is refusing to read and you want to share your story and how you dealt with it?