Encouraging kids to read. How we can raise kids who read.

Encouraging kids to read. How we can raise kids who read.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of reading in a child’s intellectual, social, emotional, mental development. They drink in all that you can read when they are young, and it also encourages them to read by themselves — the patterns, routines, and attentive habits that are set when young lasts a lifetime. If you truly wish to help children grow into readers and gain all they can from books and reading, you have to start young and ensure that you persist. All kids are not alike, and some will learn to read quicker than others, some will be late bloomers while yet others will grow in spurts. Keep reading and encourage them to read as well so that the world of words is theirs to explore.
January 20, 2020 — Suchismita Pai
How to impart multilingual skills to your child!

How to impart multilingual skills to your child!

Why is it good to know more than one language? 

Apart from the obvious reason of being able to converse in more than one language, communicate in them, being multi lingual has many other advantages.

It improves brain function - The way our brains process information changes when we know more than one language. Learning languages actually stimulates our brain cells and connections, making the brain more robust and strong. 

Adults can learn langauges to keep their brain function better and stave off issues like Alzheimer's disease. 

It makes travelling more fun and exciting - Yes, knowing a local language is a great advantage when travelling. 

It opens up the world for work and leisure. - Imagine all the books you can read, the jobs that you can apply for in different countries or just commmunicate with more people - when you know more languages. 

November 25, 2019 — Shumee Toys
Books aren't the only places stories exist.

Books aren't the only places stories exist.

We look at all these people’s stories, and learn to understand our own. The strangest, most random moments make us cry and we don’t know why. We lose ourselves in these stories, and then silently, gently and slowly discover ourselves again. All the stories are true. The stories in our hearts, the ones buried deep, the ones we find in places that we never expected, the stories that jump and demand attention, the stories that lay there quietly, waiting for us, my stories and your stories, they are all true.

 

November 13, 2017 — Shumee Toys
Start them young! How to build a reading habit! Mommy shares

Start them young! How to build a reading habit! Mommy shares

The one thing that worked with my children and what I think worked for me as a child has been the fact that we were all introduced to books early on in life. I do believe that is the key to having any chance of raising a reader. How early is early? A few months old, if that.
April 06, 2017 — Shumee Toys