10 Reasons For Parents Teaching Early Reading Skills

10 very good reasons why every parent needs to  teach early reading skills to their children.

  • It’s the easiest and best way to boost a child’s self-confidence and self esteem and raise a savvy, successful and discerning child? It is our job after all.
  • Reading is the primary building block for all future learning the earlier he starts the better for his future
  • His success or failure in life is directly based on this simple fact – but you knew that didn’t you?
  • An early ready is a confident and assured student that leads to being a highly successful adult
  • Even all the latest electronic gizmos in the house can’t teach your child to read. Why? Because the missing ingredient is you – the parent equation.
  • Parent child interaction tends to diminish as the child begins to grow from infant to toddler to the Mr. Know It All four year old this is when you need to be more involved
  • You are the greatest influence in your child’s life. You determine how he turns out in life.
  • You are in a unique position to take advantage of all the language interaction you have with your children in the earliest years of  life
  • As long as the parent equation is removed from any kind of early learning it will always be an uphill task and the learning will be slow
  • Billions of synapses are forming in his brain from birth to age five and the window for optimal learning narrows as he grows older. Most parents are unaware of this and fail to take advantage of this phenomena

Teach Him To Read Early

So believe it or not the reasons why parents need to be involved in their child’s earliest education are easier than you thought. The reasons are important and

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My grandson

pretty simple. Teach him to read as early as possible because age five is forever and the optimal opportunity for early reading and learning will be gone forever.

Parents Need Help

There is no doubt parents desperately need help and direction. They need to be shown how with just five minutes 3 or 4 times a day they can actually have their child be reading before first grade, even sooner.

And yet many parents are oblivious to this crucial truth. Though to be perfectly fair, most parents do, instinctively, know it to be true. But often they are under so much pressure working two or three jobs that they have very little time for much else. It is much easier to just let the TV be the baby sitter or hand them expensive talking gadget and let them get on with it.

How I Did It You Can Too

I should know I taught all my four kids to be proficient readers by age five and I was an immigrant mother. Today all my four kids are highly successful professionals amongst the top one percent of earners. You are no different from me. If I can do it so can you.

Most Consequential Investment In His Future

To learn more on how and why I taught my kids to become early readers leave me your name and email and I will make sure you get a FREE copy of “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read,” especially if you have a pre school child, a child with a reading block or reading disability.  Do it for your child, remember it’s the biggest and most consequential investment in his future.

Also sign up and learn more on how easy it is to teach your toddler to read.  I know that, not just reading, playing games, storytelling or singing but all other exchanges that take place during the course of everyday life, are extremely important but just when he needs more interaction not less he is in full pull of the TV orbit and in the firm grip of the electronic gizmos.

Too Many Parents Fall For The Electronic Hype

He is the prime target of the slick Madison Avenue genius machines who make billions of dollar on the ferocious appetite – fueled no less by Madison Avenue them self – of unsuspecting parents and  their kids.

From toys, to shoes; from food to clothing, every aspect of their lives is fare game.  Companies’ sole purpose seems to be to indoctrinate and manipulate America’s kids to pestering parents into buying the latest gizmo, the latest fashion, the latest electronic wizardry. Parents fall for it believing all the hype and think their children will learn to read or spell or count all by them self.

Most parents go along with it despite knowing better, perhaps to combat the vague sense of guilt that washes over them for working long hours at two or three jobs trying to provide for their families.

Sadly, no amount of electronic wizardly will teach a child much of anything except perhaps to be a glutinous consumer.

So the vicious cycle continues till it threatens to take over every nook and cranny of the house. The cycle is never ending.  The old stuff is thrown out to make room for the latest and newest Madison offerings.

Missing The Mark

Big mistake! The biggest teachable moment is completely missed. There is a lesson in there somewhere, for parents and grandparents to teach a few easy lessons to their voracious little consumers.

If they stop and think a while they can use such moments to make their children smarter and more responsible consumers. They could teach the value of money; the wisdom of saving; the benefit of conserving and the biggest lesson of all, being  savvy and informed consumers, to say nothing of teaching them to read early all by them self.

This is where a child is either at an advantage or disadvantage depending on the level of parental involvement. So every parent and grandparents needs to get involved and give their little geniuses a head start by taking the reins and giving the gift of early reading skills.

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Till the next time my very best,

Me

 

 

 

What Parents Can Do To Raise Early Readers

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

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.

To learn more get a FREE copy of “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read.”

My very best.

Till the next time.

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Me!

Words To Ponder Quotes

Words have awesome power. These are words to ponder, Nothing is more profound in the human experience than the power of words. Our words do matter.

Do words touch or move you? Do you stop to ponder and search for the meaning behind them? Do certain words or phrases; leave you feeling wiser, smarter, humbler or angrier? Because words can do that and more?

Have you ever got an email that made you do a whole lot of reflecting? That left you feeling better for having read it?

I got one such email the other day that I almost deleted without opening it first. I’m glad I took the time to read it because the words made me think and reflect on the power of their message. I know I grew a whole lot wiser in the process.

 


 

 Prepare To Feel The power Of Words

 

“Great insights and also a lot of fun…”

 

  •  Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
  •  The best vitamin for making friends….. B1.
  •  The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
  •  The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.
  •  One thing you can give and still keep…is your word.
  •  You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.
  •  If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
  •  One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
  • Your mind is like a parachute…it functions only when open.
  • The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.
  • The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!
  • Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
  • It is never too late to become what you might have been.
  • Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right.  Forget about the ones who don’t.
  • Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it.
  • Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
  • Ideas won’t work unless ‘You’ do.
  • A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.
  • If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn’t oversleep.

 


 

So what did you think?

Did words to ponder quotes leave you pondering too? Powerful wisdom in the words. I am sure you have your own opinion on the meaning of words and how they are perceived. Perhaps you have a few wise and thought provoking words of your own. I am sure you can come up with something memorable your self just waiting to be heard.

We all have moments of wisdom and produce words born of our own deep reflection. We all have words of wisdom passed on to us that we would do well to live by. Whatever the case may be please share them here with the rest of us

So in that vain here are a few of mine own:

  • Your children are the mirror you hold up to yourself.
  • To have touched a life with words is to have lived beyond the grave.
  • Nothing is more profound in the human experience than the power of words. Your words matter.

As always my very best and come back soon.

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Me!