Do you make special efforts to cultivate the reading habit in your child ?

We are reading family. I sleep among the books. My bed room is full with books. My children follow me. they read till they are sleepy. My daughter have a habit of reading in the toilet also. their reading is higher than their age. And they have a vast knowledge also. I am so much worried about their eye site because of their over reading habit. What you told is correct.

I encourage them to read, but I don't force them to. that would turn it into a chore, and I don't want it to be a chore for them.

hi kiran madam, you are always right madam, cultivate the habit of reading books that means good books of ethics,history,leaders and etc,once the reading of books started it will not end up to the life,surely the children win the exminations by reading of class books also,gifting good books on the birthday is also a good habit,have a nice day

I think that teaching children to read is very important. you can't have a good education without reading well. i have always done whatever I could to encourage good reading habits in my children.

As far as I am concerned, I think I am a book lover ,who have read a lot of books during my childhood.The way I can enjoy reading so much may be that I can pay fully attention to the book that I read.In that way, I can lose myself in the book,which I think can be a special way to make myself have a good reading habbit in my childhood life.

well i do not have kids but i remember my father reading books all the time. he was member of india today book club and i still remember a small magazine coming to our house which contains a brief description of thousands of books each placed category wise and i used to look at it and read the reviews or the outline of the books. he encouraged me to read books, started first from the adventure books of Enid Blyton and later on a gift in the form of alchemist by Paulo Coelho. after that there was no steeping back and there is nothing else which i am interested in other than books.

I don't have kids, but I can talk about my experience in being a kid. My mom read to us, bought us books, sometimes on just regular days, and we saw her reading a lot. I became a reader -my Christmas lists are still mainly books. My brother not so much. Most of the books my mom bought for him, I ended up reading. Although he did read all my Babysitter Club books. Also, I don't know if this still happens in schools, but we had the catalogs of books that were delivered to the classroom that the kids could order from. And I had a teacher in sixth grade who read to us for a few minutes a day. I actually discovered some favorite books through those reading times. Whenever this topic comes up, I really only have one thing I firmly believe. Reading should be presented to kids as something they'll want to do. Rather than something they should do.

I agree with you. When I was at school I struggled to read and write, as the teachers never really spotted that they was failing certain pupils. Once I moved due to the issues I had at that certain school, I quickly learned many new things and this improved my thoughts on school. It was cool, fun and I enjoyed going. I picked up how to read within a few months and by year 6 I had caught up with most of my class. I've always had this view with my own children, as I read to them every day and they enjoy being read too. My wife and I sit down with them, play games like "What's this animal" and make the noise so that they learn what certain animals do. The stage I'm at with my son is trying to get him to spell his own name and others. (He can now spell his name) Hopefully I can get him interested in trying to learn to read, he's always been ahead of his age and I'm hoping by time he's five he will be able to read certain words properly as he can recognize certain words already.

hi kiran madam, you are always right madam, cultivate the habit of reading books that means good books of ethics,history,leaders and etc,once the reading of books started it will not end up to the life,surely the children win the exminations by reading of class books also,gifting good books on the birthday is also a good habit,have a nice day

That was the best I could have done for my kids, No wI have no REGRETS