In the first moments, your new little one seems more like an alien than a bundle of joy, but after a bath for baby and a few deep breaths for the new parents, your little angel looks their part. Their little red face is all scrunched up, and the sounds that voice from their puckered little mouth are the most precious notes you could ever hope for. You ache any time the nurses take them for tests, and you deny offers from well meaning friends and family who offer to hold them while you get some sleep. All you want to do is be with your new baby, and you'll forego food, water and sleep to do just that! Baby Pictures and Words
It is never to early to introduce books and reading to babies. Reading aloud to your baby is a remarkable way of fostering brain development and important in the development of language skills.
Reading to your child is the most valuable thing you can do and babies benefit immensely. Not only does it help develop baby’s eye muscles through focusing on pictures but it helps to encourage language skills. Each and every baby learns by sight, sound and feeling. When a baby sees, hears or feels anything, brain connections form and eventually create a piece of knowledge.
Babies first learn words by association with objects and pictures, which help them to understand the world around them. Eventually these associations are developed into language skills, where they begin sounding out the word. Language skills then develop into a way of which a baby can communicate with their parents and others around them.
As your baby grows into a toddler there are many other benefits that reading provides, such as:
- Reading aloud helps your child to learn new words, associations and language skills.
- Reading aloud to children helps them to learn and understand about the world around them and events and situations that do occur in everyday life.
- Reading aloud to children helps them to develop their creativity and imagination.
- Reading aloud to children helps them to learn about values and moral concepts, such as honesty, sharing and teaches them right from wrong.
- Reading aloud to children is calming and soothing and is a fantastic way to bond with your child.
The benefits of reading to your baby and child are endless!
Establish a daily routine and read to your child. Life can never be too busy to set aside some reading time to your child and the rewards your child will reap are infinite!
Introduce the new baby in your life with a world of words and pictures with a wonderful baby book basket. The new baby will be delighted and the joy derived from books will provide countless hours of learning and pleasure.
Start reading to your baby today!
