Books are windows to the world. Maxim that may be familiar to your ears. Not too much there that call like that, because by reading our insights on a range of knowledge in this world will grow. Moreover, reading is very important for the development and growth of children.
Reading is one of the best efforts to help the brain development of children. Reading is one of the highest functions of the human brain. Reading is the most important functions in life and can be said that all learning is based on reading ability.
Children should be helped to love to read any time, any time since the desires of curiosity appears. Since children are born until they reach their teens, in fact the child is open to receive guidance. Since the baby, he already had a curiosity, language skills and mental functions.
Parents and educators in schools should introduce books to children, because children will not seek or want a book reading of his own desires because they have not understood the benefits of reading books and also because there is no example of a parent. In addition, the price of books is often inaccessible to the child allowance.
A new study again found that children who grow up in households where they are often fed a lot of books are much more intelligent and follow the lessons well in school than those not "introduced" by the book.Researchers said the benefits of this book is about the same happens in the countries in the world and not look at the educational background of parents, gross domestic product (GDP) a country, the father's work, or the country's political system. The study shows, based on data from 73,249 people living in 27 countries, including the United States, showed evidence that has at least 500 books the library can help increase children's education for an average of 3.2 years.
"You get a lot of surprises for your book," said study researcher Mariah Evans, a sociologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, United States. "That's good enough to return the investment in a fast time to obtain scarce resources," he added as quoted by LiveScience.com.
For example a child born from a family that only one book, but otherwise average parental education, father's employment, GDP, and the same variable, will benefit over 9.4 years of education the children themselves. Meanwhile, another person from a family that otherwise identical to the 500 books will be useful in the 12.6 years of education (high school senior has 12 years of education).
For years, teachers consider to achieve a high level of education is to have highly educated parents. However, according to study findings, a substantial library of books is only good for the college-educated parents to improve education.
"In fact, (the book) a little can go a long," said Evans about the number of books in the house. Have only 20 books in the home still has a significant impact to encourage children to higher levels of education, and provide more books, the greater the benefit.
In some countries such as China, have 500 or more books at home can encourage the improvement of education for children 6.6 years. In the United States, the effect is less than 2.4 years. However, Evans asserts that 2.4 years is still a significant advantage in terms of educational attainment.
According to U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, an American who studied at a college or earned a diploma equivalent, but not yet an undergraduate, earning an average of USD7.213 more per year than those with only high school educated (high school) . While those who have achieved a college degree to get USD21, 185 more each year, on average, than those with only high school diplomas.
Finally it can be concluded, teach reading books at home two times more important than the education level of fathers, and even more important than whether a child is raised in China or the United States. The results of this study will be published online in the journal of research in the "Social Stratification and Mobility".One way to foster interest in reading in children is through storytelling. Therefore, it is more easily understood by children. Parents should familiarize themselves to tell their children before bed. For parents who are too busy with work, they should set aside time to interact with his son briefly in order to foster interest in reading children.
The habit of reading bedtime stories is in addition to containing aspects of education, is also a precious moment for the emotional relationship between parent and child. Thus, families, schools, and community as important to our efforts to develop interest in reading. You could say, one and the other mutual equip.
