Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Family
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Dear friends!
How will you celebrate the upcoming Valentine’s Day? Who will you send a greeting to? Find out an interesting fact about this holiday in the News section below. Truly, it’s not entirely about romance. What about you?
Now let’s talk about reading. How often do you read to your child? The article in Parenting section will hopefully prompt you to read to your child more and why.
Happy Valentine’s Day,
Adwina Jackson
Editor of InspiringParenting
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10 Reasons to Read to Your Child
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by Dawn Holland
We all know that learning to read is important, but as parents what do we do to facilitate this milestone?
Reading to your child has many benefits one of which is simply having time to snuggle together.
Here are 10 reasons to read to your child.
1. When you read to your child, he/she will learn that reading is important to you, therefore reading will become important to him/her.
2. The more your child hears sounds, the better he/she will process these sounds into words. When a child is preschool/kindergarten age the listening word starts to become the written word.
3. Reading has a calming effect on a restless or fussy baby. Who doesn’t want an easy way to calm a fussy baby?
4. Reading is a wonderful before bed routine. Studies have shown that a child will thrive in an atmosphere in which routines are present.
5. Reading will help to develop your child’s imagination. Have you ever gotten lost in a good book? Your child can do the same while you are reading to him/her.
6. Reading will foster your child’s ability to listen and pay attention. With all the problems we here about concerning attention spans this is a great way to avoid that.
7. Reading to a young child will teach him/her the correct way to hold a book and turn the pages.
8. Reading to your child will develop in him/her the desire to become a reader.
9. Teachers will thank you
10. When a child is read a personalized story book, he/she will be able to recognize his/her name in print at an early age.
Isn’t it exciting to think that you can have such an effect on your child’s ability to read just by reading to him/her? You have the power to develop a life long joy of reading and learning in your child. WOW! Just read.
About the Author: Dawn Holland is a WAHM of 3 boys and an RN with 12 years of maternal infant and pediatric nursing. She is also a Certified Breastfeeding counselor. Dawn owns Books from the Hearth, an online bookstore and gift shop specializing in personalized children’s books and personalized baby gifts. http://www.BooksFromTheHearth.com
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Valentine’s Day Not Just about Romance
A survey by American greetings revealed that this holiday is more than just about romance.
Family and friends receive the second highest percentage of valentines after spouses and significant others.
Oprah Winfrey is the most favorite celebrity name women will send the greeting to. What about the men?
Find out here.
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Your Heartful Valentine’s Day
Teach your children the spirit of love in the upcoming Valentine’s Day. Ask them to join you creating simple stuffs to decorate your house or to give to the ones they love.
Some simple homemade heart shaped frames would be a great idea.
What you need:
• thick papers
• pictures of your children
• pink and red crayon
• glue
• a puncher
• a magnet
The simple steps to take:
• Help your children by cutting the papers into heart shapes
• Ask them to stick their picture on the heart shaped paper
• Then let them draw with the pink and red crayon on the border of the paper
• Punch the top of the heart shaped frame if you want to put it on the wall or simply stick it on a magnet to put on your fridge
• Spare some time with your children to create more frames so that they can give them to others they care about
| Things To Do Today |
Reading in your child’s bed time is one of the easy ways of teaching him to read and learn. It’s also a perfect time for you to get close to each other every day.
