It is important to develop from an early age your kid's interest in various kinds of books. How to compile them in an appropriate home library bookcases for their orderly storage is as equally important. This interest in books is one way of ensuring his intellectual development, which is vital in the growth of young people.
A child surrounded by all kinds of books is very much likely to develop the reading habit much faster, compared to the kid whose parents did not care in buying the books for him in his tender years. Even if the child is not able to read yet, the act alone of him opening the pages of a book and browsing over the pictures does much in the conditioning of his intellect. The impressions that pictures alone have on the young mind are of tremendous help.
They say that even when the child is still in the womb of the mother, he already begins the learning process. Because of this, some pregnant mothers even start talking to their babies while still in their wombs, following the advice of some experts that indeed babies whose mothers talked to them while still in the womb are born with developed brains, with higher capacity for intellectual development.
Continuing this practice in the child's baby years, into his toddler years, and finally when he is ready for prep school, the mental development is fast and he is likely to get good grades in school later. Some even graduate at the top their classes in their later years.
Notice how children in non-English speaking countries learn how to speak English by themselves, even if they are not in school yet after a few years of viewing the TV cartoons in English. Nobody taught them to speak in the English language, yet they manage to answer simple questions in English, with just their hours of TV watching.
The same effect will benefit the kid who has many books in his
. The presence of the books will lead to his curiosity in asking his mother all sorts of questions. If he is given the correct answers, the mother automatically is teaching him in so many things.
Even the mother may not be aware of this so much. She may have to read the book herself for her own education if she has not seen the book before in her own childhood years ago.
Mothers who are schoolteachers by profession have a definite advantage over others who are not. The schoolteacher mom has a tendency to talk with her kid like the way she talks in her classroom, thus continuously teaching the kid, even unconsciously.
If the mother and her son do not have English as a first language, they both develop proficiency in the language by the continuous English speaking practice. Coupled with a regular opening of the books in the kids bookcase, the child continuous learning English, seemingly the dominant language to develop worldwide in the coming years.
