Want to Raise Successful Kids?

Read to your kids.

Let's start with the basics. Pediatricians have been preaching this for a while, and the American Academy of Pediatrics has been officially recommending it since 2014: Parents need to read to their children from the earliest ages.

Infants, even? Yep. While the youngest babies might not understand your words, the impact of your reading aloud to them is thought to have at least two benefits:

• bonding over verbal exchanges between parent and child, and

• demonstrating how communication itself works.

Of course, the advantages of reading become even more obvious as children grow a bit older -- and they continue to cascade. It's one of the lessons that I heard again and again in compiling my free e-book, How to Raise Successful Kids.

"The stronger their language skills are when they reach kindergarten, the more prepared they are to be able to read," Brown University professor Pamela High told the PBS NewsHour. "The better they read, the more likely they will graduate from high school."

From there, they'll be more likely to achieve higher education, enjoy positive familial relationships, and attain economic security. (No pressure, but it really does start at a young age.)

(Extracted from https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/neuroscience-kids-success-parents-best-practices.html)

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