{"id":167614,"date":"2010-01-11T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=138808"},"modified":"2010-01-11T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:36:13","slug":"turn-off-the-electronics-and-read-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167614","title":{"rendered":"Turn Off the Electronics and Read Aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I have enjoyed the most about my time with my kids is reading aloud. Being homeschoolers we have done a lot of it. Being read to starts at birth and goes until you move out at our house &#8211; and I like it that way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138815 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/read-aloud-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"read-aloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/>Sure, there are times when life gets in the way and we don&#8217;t get to read like we want to&#8230;but as soon as I can carve out a chunk of time I grab a book and invite the kids to explore a new place with me. There are a lot of benefits to reading a book to your child no matter what age they are. Reading helps your child&#8217;s imagination develop, it helps his\/her language development and, best of all, it allows him\/her to develop a lengthier attention span than the peers that are living on a diet of\u00a0 comic books, cartoons, and video games.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many times we were too engrossed in Narnia to come back home for lunch. I can&#8217;t count the number of hours that we spent exploring Middle Earth or hoping that Anne Shirley would forgive Gilbert Blythe. I knew that my reading program had been a success when my children exclaimed in disgust that <em>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs <\/em>was nothing like the book.<\/p>\n<p>If you want your children to enjoy reading then try reading to them. Find a moment in the day when it works for your family. Bedtime is often good, and helps to settle everyone down&#8230;we have used a 3 p.m. &#8220;tea time&#8221; in the past. While the kids were eating their cookies and drinking tea I would read a chapter&#8230;or two&#8230;or three&#8230;.. Dang! Dinner time all ready?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is going to have their own ideas about what makes a good read aloud. Here are some that we have enjoyed a lot and were easily enjoyed by <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138816 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/child-reading-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"child-reading\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/>the various ages represented in my household.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charlie and the\u00a0 Chocolate Factory<\/li>\n<li>The Black Cauldron<\/li>\n<li>The Hobbit<\/li>\n<li>Pippi Longstocking<\/li>\n<li>Anne of Green Gables<\/li>\n<li>Black Beauty<\/li>\n<li>Little House in the Big Woods (and the entire series)<\/li>\n<li>The Black Stallion<\/li>\n<li>The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/li>\n<li>Uncle Wiggly books<\/li>\n<li>The Boxcar Children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are so many more!<\/p>\n<p>Besides,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/too-much-tv-may-lead-to-earlier-death\/\"> watching t.v all the time is just not healthy<\/a>!\u00a0 Visit the library, find a book you like and grab the kids and start reading. It really builds family time and great memories. And&#8230;it gives you an excuse to sit down!<\/p>\n<p>images:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/\">sxc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/turn-off-the-electronics-and-read-aloud\/\">Turn Off the Electronics and Read Aloud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I have enjoyed the most about my time with my kids is reading aloud. Being homeschoolers we have done a lot of it. Being read to starts at birth and goes until you move out at our house &#8211; and I like it that way. Sure, there are times when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}