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Did your parents read and sing to you as a child? That could have helped you more than you may think with both your reading and language skills.
Today I read an article on BBC about the fact that reading to children apparently can give them a 6 month advantage in terms of their reading level.
The study is done by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and is based on teenagers in 14 developed countries.
The study found that regularly reading books to children at an early age could represent more than a year’s advantage in reading levels at the age of 15 (the average was 6 months).
According to an article published earlier this year in The Guardian you should also sing to your child to avoid language problems later in life.
Amelia Hill from The Guardian interviewed Sally Goddard Blythe, (consultant in neuro-developmental education and director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology) who claims singing helps to prepare the childs ear, voice and brain for language. Further more listening to music and singing helps develop both sides of the brain. Fascinating information isn’t it!?
So to all of you soon-to-be mothers or out there, start preparing your voices and stack up with books!
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my personal experiance supports and also does not back this article.
1. as a child i was not read too, mostly due to lack of time on my parents part, and because of their age (they were not read to as children either in war ridden spain).
2. i personally became very found of books as ironically enough my father worked in a book store all my life. i read possible 1-2 books per week from the age of 8 – 14.. and to this day read ALOT. i excelled in school, both in study and practice and my vocabulary was always above average. i 100% believe this is because i read so much.
when my son was born, i started reading to him immediately. he has collected hundresds of books in his 12 years of life. he loved reading, and i loved reading to him, and he still really loves books. Unfortuantely this has not helped him AT ALL in school. he is below average in all of his subjects, grammar, reading and writing. so it is not true in his case. Although i believe that most of the time reading and singing is EXTREMELY beneficial not only to intelligence but to BONDING with a child, there are exceptions to the rule.
Very interesting Tanya, thanks for sharing your own experience!