Reading is learning and life the same as vegetables to our body: we all know how good they are for children (and adults) and few use them.
Reading is a perfect way to expand knowledge, vocabulary and at the same time learn to write. However, the lack of reading habits is one of the greatest social epidemics that exist, partly because someone, in the course of our lives, carried out one or more of these ten tips for children to hate reading.
- When they start reading aloud, interrupt them constantly to mark their mistakes: I think there is no person in the world who likes to do an activity that is corrected again and again by others.
- Force them to read: In the line of the previous point. There is nothing more efficient than to force or "send" to do something to achieve the opposite effect.
- Disdain your tastes and do not respect their criteria: Do you want to read this? But it is very boring! Wouldn't you prefer this other one so pretty? It is better that they read what they like to end up by not doing it by having to read what they don't like.
- Imponles readings: "Now that you have finished this book, start with this one. I loved it." For tastes colors, everyone who decides what to read.
- Ask them to give you a summary: Do not transform the pleasure of reading into a job. Reading should be something pleasant, never an exercise (why does nobody ask children to summarize the cartoon chapters?).
- Control everything they read: It's fine that you care about what they read, but you don't have to examine them or question them about it.
- Remind them of the benefits of reading: "If you read a lot you will get smarter and get better grades" ... almost as hateful as "eat son, you have to grow up."
- Match books only with homework: Many books serve to learn things, many others simply tell nice stories (or not) to read. They are as recommended as each other.
- Punish them without TV for not reading: Every time a child without A is punished, for not doing B, the child gets to want even more A and hate even more B (in Christian, the child will want to watch TV and will take mania to reading).
- Demand inappropriate readings: Neither do we have to demand the readings, as we have already said, nor should they be inadequate for the age or maturation of children.
The decalogue is part of the Practical guide per a fer fills lectors (Practical guide to make reading children) framed in the campaign Arrive in fa més grans of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
I don't know about you, but I am one of many adults who has resumed the pleasure of reading at twenty, after losing it (if I ever had it) during the school period.
I hope things have changed and I hope not to follow any of these tips, for the sake of my children.
