Of course it matters! The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that whether preschool children (before the age of 5 or 6) often hear their parents' bedtime stories will directly affect their academic performance after kindergarten and after school.
Therefore, the American Academy of Pediatrics appeals that children should develop the habit of reading bedside books from infancy; For babies, literacy can start from infancy-children's stories, rhyming limericks, beautiful children's songs and gentle bedtime conversations are all helpful to expand children's early vocabulary and cultivate children's communication skills.
We often say "look at the old at the age of three", but in fact, many people still don't understand: what is the real direction to train children aged 0-3? It's not expensive early education and learning math in advance, but the development of language!
And a cruel fact is that the richer the family, the more aware of the direction of children's early intellectual development.
American sociologists have done a survey and found that the vocabulary of upper-middle class children and children from lower-class families is twice as large as that of the latter only before the age of 3. For example, when children from wealthy families say "The Great Wall is the gate of Wan Li", children from bottom families will only say: The Great Wall is really long!
Why is the gap so big? Researchers have found that families above the middle class can say more than 30 million words to children aged 0-3. The proportion of them who insist on telling their children bedtime stories is 66%, which is twice that of ordinary families.
Under the constant stimulation of a good language environment, children's brain development has been promoted and accumulated over time, which has become a leading advantage for children.
At the same time, this gap will become more and more obvious after 3-5 years, as children go to school and enter higher schools. In fact, there is indeed a vocabulary gap theory in children's psychology: the vocabulary gap when children are 3 years old leads to the gap when children are adults.
Why is it 3 years old? Because 85% of the growth of the human brain is completed before the age of 3, which is the most important stage to lay the foundation for children's thinking and learning ability.
So what is the best early education? Talking to children more is the best early education!
The more parents talk to their baby, the richer their vocabulary, and the better their baby's language ability will be. Even if the baby can't talk, it will be of great benefit to explain what is happening around him!
Sleep is the clearest and strongest prime time for brain memory, and it is also the best time for children aged 1-3 to develop their brain intelligence. If we can tell our children a short story before going to bed, whether it is a fairy tale adapted by us or an interesting childhood experience, we can benefit our children for life!
Every mother has something to say:
Even if the above benefits are put aside, isn't bedtime story an "artifact" to cultivate parent-child feelings? Ma Bao often asks me: How can I get close to my children when I leave early and return late every day?
I always answer: tell the children bedtime stories! Don't think that bedtime stories are simply telling and seeing Xiong Haizi off. In fact, when we tell stories to our children seriously, our gentle and patient stories, the feelings we inadvertently convey, and the intimate interaction with our children … will all become the warmest memories for children when they grow up!
Without bedtime stories, children always seem to lack something in their childhood. ...