A new study discovered a link between parents reading to their kids and the children’s showing less disobedience in their daily life. Is reading the new cure for misbehaving?

Reading to kids linked to better behaviour in offspring
Reading to children helps them to be prepared for school and learn with ease, earlier studies showed.

Preschoolers acquire necessary knowledge by developing verbal, literacy and emotive abilities.

However, new findings by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School scholars point out reading books to little ones also has a positive impact on their overall behavior in regular integrations.

The study’s results were published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, advocating supplementary advantages of reading out loud to the offspring via an improved parent-child connection and a reduced amount of concentration difficulties in the offspring.

Set the child for life with advantages

Senior investigator, a primary development and behavior physician at Children’s Specialized Hospital and a senior lecturer at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Pediatric Division, Manuel Jimenez stated that for adults the plain routine of spending time with a book before bed every day affords not just educational but emotional advantages that can help boost the preschooler’s achievement in primary school and beyond.

Jimenez  believes that their research results can be practical to projects that support families in improving their parenting skills.

Reading to children helps them prepare for school and learn with ease.

Long-lasting results
The scholars studied records on 2,165 female parent-kid pairs from 20 U.S. cities. The mothers were questioned about the frequency of shared reading to children aged 1-3 years old.

The mothers were again interviewed about methods of disciplining their children when behaving improperly 2 years later. The scientists were checking which methods parents used to discipline kids and how often they had to do it.

The survey also measured factors such as maternal depression and economic hardship that could be contributors to strict parenting and kids’ unruly actions.

• The survey results indicated that regular joint book reading at the age of 1 was related to reduced severity in childcare at the age of 3.
• Shared book discussions on a regular basis at the age of 3 was linked with less strict child-rearing at the age 5.

Parents who read books habitually with their kids documented fewer unruly conducts from their kids as well. That partially explains the decline in strict parenting actions.

To end with, reading books to youngsters regularly is closely related to reduced strict parenting measures and improved behavior.

In other words, if you wish to have kids who are well behaved, read them before bed!

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