Why Parents Should Encourage Children To Read Books

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We live in an age of incredible dependence on technology. Enter a coffee shop and you’ll see people either talking to one another or fiddling with their phones or on their laptops. Most of the people you see by themselves are engaged in whatever electronic device they have on hand. Even at home, at the dinner table, children are glued to their mobile devices. During their free time, they’re either playing games or streaming a video, hypnotized by what they’re seeing.

This is why it is more important than ever to encourage kids to read books. Electronic devices have a way of robbing children of their creativity. Studies show that an increasing number of children are being drawn into and eventually addicted, to streaming videos of other kids unboxing toys or playing video games. Children are slowly stopping to think for themselves.

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Reading books helps children regain that creativity. After all, books are worlds in themselves. Through words and descriptions, children imagine a different reality in their minds, with creatures of all shapes and sizes. Books don’t spoon-feed images but rather they draw out the images from the minds of their readers.

Encouraging children to read books is one of the best thing parents can do for their kids. Children will adopt this habit and learn that one’s imagination is worth more than all the streaming videos on the internet combined.

Hi, my name is Jeff Mohlman, an English Lit student at the University of Ohio. Learn more about me and the stuff I love by checking out this blog.