Many parents ask "What's the use to read stories for children? Soon when they older, they can read by their own. Parents has other things to do such working to pay bills."
It is important to understand that it is better for the children to get the best out of their parents NOT to get what is the best that the children can get. Parents has experiences that are essentials in this life, the value of life, that is one "the best out of their parents" thing among the others that the children must inherit. The other thing is the attention from the parents, the parents's time for their children. Let the children experience to the very bone of their being that the children are extremely important for their parents, by this, they will realize that they presence in this world and in certain time-frame of their life, is so meaningful for the world the same as they are so meaningful to their parents.
By telling words from the stories to the children, parents are enriching their children's vocabularies, triggering their children's curiosities (let the children ask the strange words for them, and let the parents explaining with patience), expanding their children's awareness of their surrounding (time, space, objects, interactions, and atmosphere). This long-process will prepare their children when they will be introduced to the world of literacy (academic, mostly). Their children will easily recognize the materials they will read to comprehend by easily determine the sections in the reading materials such as, initial situation, the building block of current situation in the stories, elements that cause the problem, hypothesis process, methodology and approaches used, solution process, then conclusion.
In conclusion, all the process that looks like seemingly useless for some parents, in turn, to be the most important process in the development of their children. It is the very being of the parents that MUST be inherited to their children, that no-one in this world and this universe can replace them. It is the parents responsibility to shape their children into the being that will bless the world in their generation, in their time-space. Whenever the parents refuse to being there in the development process of their children, someone elses will replace their absence, and more to it, will enter phylosphy that will be considered "alien" to their parents.
Please visit the iNatural - Books for Children Kumon Recommended Reading List (Kumon RLL) to browse the list of books for children categorised by ages from pre-school to high school. Please contact our support inatural_spprt@yahoo.com so we can service you better. Thank you for your attention, your comments are highly welcome.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
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