1. Create a reading environment

The French philosopher Helvetius has a famous saying: "Man is a product of the environment."

This sentence has been agreed by many people.

For example, in "Pi" Yan Ni decided to send her daughter Lin Miaomiao to a key high school. When talking about why she did this, she said a very classic saying: learn from good people and learn from witches.

As the saying goes: "If you live in an orchid house for a long time, you will not smell its fragrance; if you live in Baoshi for a long time, you will not smell its smell." This is also true.

The same principle applies when cultivating children's reading habits. Specifically, you can do this:

If possible, arrange a separate study room for the child; or, the next best thing, arrange a reading corner in the child's bedroom.

Put away tablets, mobile phones and other electronic products at home and place them where children cannot see them.

Move the TV from the living room to your parents’ bedroom.

Place books within easy reach of your children.

2. Parents should lead by example

Children have no ability to distinguish.

Usually, when the parents watch TV, he will watch TV; when the parents play on the mobile phone, he will follow the mobile phone.

Therefore, as the people who have the most contact with children, the behavior of parents plays a vital role in the development of children's habits and behaviors.

To raise a child who loves reading, parents themselves must first love reading.

It doesn’t work if you want your children to love reading while holding on to your phone.

Of course, this does not mean that parents should give up entertainment time completely.

What the author recommends is that parents plan a small amount of time every day to read with their children and set a good example. This time may not be long, but it must be there.

In addition, try to stay away from children when playing with mobile phones, watching TV, etc. Otherwise, the child will feel unbalanced: Why do you want me to read a book, but you can play with your mobile phone yourself? In turn, it triggers children's resistance to reading, which is not worth the gain.

3. Set a fixed time for reading every day

We are used to having three meals a day and eating at the same time. It's like doing this is imprinted in your mind, it doesn't feel strenuous. This is the benefit of forming a habit.

The same goes for cultivating children's reading ability. The most important thing is to persevere, read a little every day and develop a habit, instead of suddenly reading a lot one day and not reading the rest of the day.

As Chairman Mao Zedong said: If you are persistent, why sleep at three o'clock and get up at five o'clock: The most useless thing is to be exposed to ten days of cold in one day.

When cultivating children's reading ability, the author also recommends that parents:

Find a fixed time to read. You don't need to pursue the length of reading at the beginning, but pursue reading every day.

In this way, as time accumulates, reading at the right time will become as normal to the child as eating and drinking.

4. Use suspense skillfully to guide children to read independently

When they first start reading, many children will feel uninterested, do not want to read, and cannot persist.

This is a normal phenomenon. It is useless for parents to get angry and force their children to study at this time. Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

At this time, you can learn from the practice of the famous educator and writer Yin Jianli:

Teacher Yin Jianli’s daughter did not like reading at first. How did Teacher Yin Jianli do it?

She first picked out interesting children’s books with long stories that children could understand, and told them a little story in the book every day. The stories were serialized, but Teacher Yin Jianli only told a little every day. I won’t talk about it anymore. Just like watching a TV drama, children are attracted by the story and want to know the next development of the plot. In the end, they can't stand it any longer, so they take the initiative to pick up the book and read it.

This is a very good case of interest guidance.

We do not want to force children to read, but to make children fall in love with reading, so that children can read and absorb the knowledge in books for a longer period of time.

5. Give children the opportunity to express their reading content

Everyone has the instinct to express themselves.

If the fruits of your labor are praised by others, you will work harder. For example, if we are praised by the leader at work, we will be more careful and work harder in the next work.

This principle also applies when cultivating children to read.

Let children receive positive feedback such as praise for their reading achievements, which will help encourage children to continue reading, thus forming a positive cycle.

Specifically, parents can do this from the following aspects:

Let the children tell stories to their parents, show interest, and "urge" the children

Let children tell stories they read in books in front of relatives

Encourage children to tell stories they read to their friends

Record videos of children telling stories , send to Moments

In front of relatives and friends, do not hesitate to praise your children’s reading achievements