Hello dear reader friends, I hope you are well! As you know, reading is one of the best pastimes, it is traveling through letters and discovering new universes, it is also a great window to knowledge, so fostering the habit of reading from an early age is a very good thing since it also helps feed the imagination in a very entertaining way while developing their intellectual capacity, so today I would like to talk to you about the advantages of instilling this wonderful habit in our children, without further ado, I will begin..

As you know, reading comprehension is totally fundamental in every human being, since without it academic training is difficult, so it is essential to work on it from home, since a child who reads well, studies better and therefore will have better academic performance.

The more a child reads, the more words they learn, so this helps them learn to express themselves better in their social, family and school environment, they also develop their fluency when speaking and even learn to write without spelling mistakes and to use language correctly.

Books allow children to "transport themselves" to other places through fantasy and illusion, since while they read they recreate in their minds through words what the places that the books expose would be like and also imagine what the characters of the stories would be like.

A child who "locks himself" in the pages of a book will learn to concentrate and will also stay still for long periods of time, so it will help him a lot during his school years.

Reading positively affects brain activity as it can give them the necessary boost to improve memory and stimulate their early reading skills. Although the text does not have great complexity for the brain, it works.

Children who read from an early age tend to be more empathic and develop their emotions better, they also learn to put themselves in the place of others and to understand the points of view and feelings of other people, which contributes positively to their adaptation to the social environment since he learns to be much more tolerant with different situations and people. Empathy also influences the health and well-being of our children

Reading encourages their curiosity, so the child will ask questions about the book and the information in it that the child does not understand, which gives them the opportunity to talk and give them more information about what happens in the story which becomes a learning experience for children seeking more information and finding more answers.

Today television, video games, smartphones and tablets are very present in our daily life and therefore also in that of children, so encouraging reading can be just as entertaining and much more enriching since various Studies have proven that if children spend a lot of time in front of screens, whether on a smartphone, tablet or video game, it can affect their character and personality and also develop addictions, so choose a book that interests them, and read it together or let them the child flipping through the pages and reading alone is definitely the best option.

There are many ways to encourage the habit of reading in children, since in some cases parents leave this task to teachers, which is a mistake since you have to know how to awaken this habit in them very early, so It is advisable to practice reading with the children daily for at least half an hour, also talk with them about what they have learned from the day's reading, clarify their doubts, encourage them to satisfy their curiosity and also offer them several readings according to their age but without limit it since offering them only short children's readings as they grow older could affect their evolution as a reader. Reading is a powerful enrichment and learning tool for our children, so let's not underestimate it, let's cultivate it!

Well dear friends this has been all for today, I hope you liked it. Thank you all very much for your attention and support of my work. I send you a big hug and it will be until a next opportunity.

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