There is research that proves the abundance of benefits of reading from a young age. At DPS Anand we equip our students with a variety of books to choose from. Our library has a wide range of selection of books updated with the latest publications regularly. Students can handpick books of their choice and read in the serenity of the library or get them issued to take home. Every day, we have worked to create the best CBSE School in Bharuch Gujarat. Let’s discuss the importance of reading at a young age:
Broadening knowledge
Reading from a young age develops a love for gaining knowledge. Children are likely to become involved with the characters, experiencing their emotions and events. They begin to recognize and expand preferences. All these encounters teach them the intellect to understand and accept things they would not otherwise encounter. Through it, children imbibe a diverse range of information that might be opposite to their personality but they still love it. It helps children to discover new qualities of them.
Improving communication skills
Simply put, reading exposes one to a treasure chest of information, transports to places unknown or where one might never go to, new words, time travel, and introduces us to different cultures, people, lifestyles, nature, an imaginary universe of infinite possibility. While children read they also become more empathetic through the love, pain, confusion, and all the roller coaster of feelings their characters go through.
Being a good communicator is so much about being empathetic, and understanding the best way to frame your information that is received in the same sense you intended it to. Reading helps to always have something to discuss, and grown-ups often require small talk when networking. Adults who read from a young age will be more likely to make a good impression and impact with their small talk when networking. Thus, children who read from a young age grow into adults with good communication skills.
Developing confidence and independence
There’s so much to feel informed about and the trust in you to be able to make decisions. Children who have read from a young age have a wider perspective and wealth of information. This builds up confidence in being able to trust them to make decisions developing independence.
Develops critical thinking skills
Reading from a formative age gives the correct tool to develop critical thinking skills. Children’s nature is being curious and when they read it opens up a world of new information. It helps them identify their reservations, likes, and dislikes about different things in life. Books help them build their perspective, and principles as the conflicting or agreeing thoughts they have while reading. According to a well-known psychologist when children read about complicated experiences that the characters in a novel go through, it can help them construct cognitive logic bridges that will help them navigate real-life circumstances and challenges in the future.
Builds confidence
Reading from a young age helps children navigate this world through fun anecdotes and beautiful pictures through words along with making them intellectually and emotionally aflame. This is an essential step in helping young minds from their view of the world and their place in it. Reading empowers one with information and broadens perspective. According to research by the University of Liverpool, those who read regularly have higher self-esteem, are less stressed, and can cope with obstacles better than those who do not.
Broadens horizons
Wouldn’t the world be a better place if people were more inclusive, and accepting? Encouraging children from a young age to read is surely a way to develop good citizens for a lovely future. According to experts, children do not make rigid segregation of reality and fantasy, socially acceptable or not. They are far more accepting than adults. Thus children who read from a young age interact with diverse characters, places, ideas, and lifestyles.
They are rather empathetic to the emotions of the characters they read about. Isn’t raising a child who is a good human, all parents aspire for! Reading widens the horizon by introducing children to diverse information, and emotions as they experience it all standing in the shoes of the protagonist and visualizing every sentence.
Conclusion
We can’t emphasize enough the critical importance of reading from a young age. These were the few pointers stressing the benefits. Hoping all that we talked about above persuaded you to encourage young minds around you to read. Read! It’s an act of kindness.