{"id":25847,"date":"2017-05-12T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T07:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=25847"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:55:17","slug":"read-books-to-and-with-your-child-science-too-suggests-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/read-books-to-and-with-your-child-science-too-suggests-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Books To And With Your Child, Science Too Suggests This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25850 size-full\" title=\"Read Books To And With Your Child, Science Too Suggests This!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_shutterstock_278128655.jpg\" alt=\"online medicine\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading books with your\u00a0child in early infancy can help to boost his\/ her vocabulary and reading skills four years later (that is before the start of elementary school).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-A study, conducted by the University of New York, was focused on evaluating how well the infants could understand words and develop reading skills.<\/p>\n<p>-The study included more than 250 pairs of mothers and their babies, from the newborn nursery of a public hospital. The children were aged between 6 months and 4 and a half years (54 months). for how well they could understand words, and for early literacy and reading skills.<\/p>\n<p>-The study also took into account the quantity and quality of books read by the pairs (parent-child) at home. Also, it was taken into account if the parents conversed with the child while they read their respective books.<\/p>\n<p>-The study <strong>revealed that children whose parents read books to them during their early years had a better vocabulary and reading skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Findings were presented at\u00a02017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: American Academy of Pediatrics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_shutterstock_278128655.jpg\" alt=\"1mg\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[216,147,153,202],"class_list":["post-25847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mg-news","tag-childcare","tag-kids-health","tag-mind-body","tag-vitamins-minerals-nutrients"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Read Books To And With Your Child, Science Too Suggests This! 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