Parents surveyed says the practice of reading stories to toddlers as beneficial, and most of them believe that this activity enables them to spend quality time with their children.
Reading aloud helps with children's development of language skills and stimulates their auditory memory. — AFP
At least, that's what a survey carried out by the Ladybird publishing house on 1,013 British parents of children aged zero to five, reported on byclaims. Three quarters of respondents would like to have more time to read a bedtime story to their toddlers. A similar proportion of parents favour children's traditional bedtime hours, between 6pm and 8pm, for undertaking this activity and feel that other times of day are not appropriate.
Despite these differences of opinion, the parents surveyed are nearly unanimous about seeing the practice of reading stories to toddlers as beneficial. Most of them believe that this activity enables them to spend quality time with their children , while 68% even see it as a way of strengthening the emotional bond between them.But that's not the only advantage of reading aloud.
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