What parents can do to raise early readers is really very simple and also very powerful. And though there are, as many routes to teaching as there are teacher, it’s only the parent who truly has the edge.

If you are a parent of a very young child you may have noticed how easily and quickly your child picks up things. Many a time you have scratched your head and wondered, “Now how did he know to do that?”

You may or may not have shown him how to do this or that but he never fails to amaze you on how much and how quickly he picks up things. Have you seen a two year old with an iPad lately?  Yeah! See what I mean?

What parents can do to raise early readers is truly priceless and yet ever so simple to do.

Natural Curiosity For Learning

Now imagine what would happen if you deliberately put time and energy into nurturing this ability. You could take his natural curiosity a step further – like teaching him to be an early reader.

In other words you don’t have to settle for the traditional – wait till first grade – before you introduce and teach your child reading skills. The thing is you will not believe how fast and easily he catches on. It will amaze and thrill you and before you know it, he will be reading to YOU instead the other way round.

Learning to Read

Don’t let anyone tell you your child isn’t ready to learn. He is ready from the moment he starts to speak.  You can give your child a head start for life by simply introducing early reading skills – don’t worry you have the ability. By early I mean reading by 5, 4 or even 3. Yes, Your child is totally capable. You didn’t think, he could learn to read, much before 6 or 7, did you?

Because if you did, you are doing a great disservice to your child and to yourself. Chew on this! By 6 or 7 he has already missed the most optimal time for learning, missed the boat to perhaps being at the top of his class.

Parents have a hard time imagining their child being able to read much before  6 never mind before 5 – that’s because the way our educational system is set up and because parents tend to hang on to their babyhood for as long as they can.  But give it a try, you will be  amazed at what your child is capable of.

Take it from me, I know. I have done it for over forty years with spectacular results with all my four kids and still doing it with my grand kids

You may have already tried the traditional method of teaching your child to read with varying degree of success. Or maybe you never paid much heed and are totally hands off and prefer ‘Leap Frog’ jump in your place. What ever your style might or might not be, rest assured, if you consciously make the right choices while your child is still young, your life will be blissfully happy – or not – when he reaches those proverbial teen years.

Different Paths To Learning

Here’s the thing we can take different paths to teaching and learning and arrive at the same destination, sooner or later, depending on where we start out from. But we have to make a start and be hands on and not leave it all to schools.

The good news is every parent is more than capable of raising smart kids. If they do they can look forward to the sweetest and most promising years of their child’s life – the teen years.

How I Did It

When my kids were young I developed an extremely easy and quick method of teaching my kids to read after I discovered – to my horror – my second child was ‘guess reading’. You know, making up words as he went along taking cues from the pictures on the page and memorizing the story sequence. Many of you parents know what I’m talking about, Too many parents struggle with the same problem and are frustrated they don’t know what to do about it..

That’s how I found out and it became the imputes to my making sure my kids were not ‘guess reading” but rather learning to decode problem words on their own. It was important to me to arm them with this vital skill way before they started school formally

Because I was on top of things I caught the problem early enough to do something about it and save myself my child and the teacher endless battles before the problem got out of hand. By being vigilant and on top of things I succeeded with amazing results with each one of my four kids and never once stressed over their school performance through out their school years.

Stay Strong

As parents we have little time to wast. Every minute counts especially in the very early years. These are years their brains are growing at an amazing rate. Don’t wast a minute of it. Harness this awesome power before it slips quietly away.

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My very best.

Till the next time.

Me!