Reading to a baby or the very young have both attractors and detractors due in part to our own reading experiences at early ages and what may be considered conflicting expert studies.
During my very early years it was a given that parents read to their children from birth through about age four. In more recent years studies in cognition have revealed that baby babble is actually innate and they are experimenting with phonemes and are capable of producing any phoneme from all languages.
Our next stage in language development is telegraphic speech in which grammar rules and syntax are learned, but often misapplied. Correcting grammar during this period is common, yet current studies suggest that language is a learned behavior, which can also be enhanced without explicit instruction.
Then off to school where most of us struggle with both our language and writing skills and often find that a story told to us by a parent is much different than the same story we read in one of our schoolbooks, creating something of a conflict.
Then that “conflict” is resolved somewhat when term papers are written for the first time and the realization of what we are doing and why. Remembering the parents version of a story, which was different than the story written and studies in school we knew that a parent had probably read the story and then related the story in words we could understand, told their version. Now we could apply this same technique to preparing a term paper from authoritative sources, into our own words.
Our “conflict resolution” then took another form with creative writing, which were our attempts too, in taking a major topic, theme, character and so forth to write or orally present something which we could call our own work and short stories and poetry were created.
This is what we have done dear reader and within our website you will find “our poetry” and the short stories we call our own are within this section of the web site.
Parents, guardians, brothers and sisters, servants, and all people with whom we come in contact are consciously or unconsciously, wisely or unwisely, teaching all the time.
Everybody reads, and reading is now and forever will be, the greatest single influence upon humanity. The day of the orator has passed, the day of print has long been upon us. Television and video games are replacing our passion for reading.
Please take careful note. No adult remains long uninfluenced by what he reads persistently, and every child receives more impressions from his reading than from all other sources put together.
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