My Baby Moon like books a lot since she was a newborn. When we showed her colour cards, she smile a lot and tried to grab the cards. I started to buy her some books when she was 9 mths old and we also bought her lots of toys. However, she always played along with her books more than toys.

Since she likes books and I try to find out the benefits of reading to baby. Let’s share with you what’s my findings here.

• Although we know that our babies can’t understand what we are reading to them, but we should start earlier and sooner they could understand us.
• It is a simple and enjoyable way for parents to take time out and focus on the family.
• It’s a wonderful bonding experience and foster meaningful one to one communication.
• At birth, the baby’s brain is not fully developed but the more senses are stimulated, the quickier the rest of a baby’s brain will develop. Reading aloud to your baby is an important form of stimulation.
• It is a form of communication by reading aloud to your baby.
• It introduces concepts such as letters, shapes, colours and numbers.
• It gives babies information about the world around them.
• Your child will be able to talk better when the more stories you read aloud to him/her.
• Hearing words helps to imprint them on a baby’s brain.
• It promotes social development. When you read to them, you are inviting your baby to look, point, touch and answer your questions.
• It fosters communication and emotional development. when reading, you child hears you using many different emotions and expressive sounds.
• It develops your baby’s thinking skills.
• It’s a worth learning skill.
• Research shows that the if your baby involve the higher rates of learning at ther early years, this habit of reading will stay with them for a lifetime.
• It helps your child master language development.
• It molds your child into becoming a reader.
• It increased your child’s potential for academic success as well as lifelong success in general.

The most important is the connection between the things your baby loves the most – your voice and closeness to you – and books. This is my Baby Moon reading time again and hope you enjoy your reading time with your child too!