Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Why Read Short Ghost Stories To Your Children

By Marla Mills


After spending a busy and a demanding day, you can relax in the evening by reading interesting short ghost stories with your kids. Apart from entertaining your kids, listening to you read them nice story can help strengthen the bond between you and your children. Owing to the busy schedules that most parents have, it is very easy for most parents to lack time to be with their kids. This is very sad considering the benefits of a good parent child relationship.

Do not expose your children to viewing cartoons and other movies only. As much it is a good thing to do, watching television has negative impact on your kids mind. This is evident by the fact that children who watch television all the time perform poorly than those who read interesting reading material. Listening and reading tales helps sharpen your kids mind.

Reading such tales is also one of the ways that your kids get to learn. This is because; most of kids story books has pictures that your kids can see as they read the tales. The kids learn how to connect the images they see and the content of the story that they read. These books also make the kid curious thus enhancing his or her imagination. As the kid imagines what may happen to their favorite character, their imagination is boosted.

You can enhance your kids communication skills by reading her or him a story. This is because; unlike the normal spoken language, a written material has many vocabularies that your kid can learn. The kid also leans how to construct a sentence in the right way. As a result, your kid can communicate comfortably, without having difficulties in expressing him or herself.

It is also important for your kid to have a sharp memory. This will be helpful to your kid, not only in school but also in his or her daily life. One way of ensuring that you boost the memory of your kid is by reading her or him interesting tales and later asking the kids question relevant to the story that you read them. As the kid recalls the story, his or her mind learns how to remember different things.

Some tales are terrifying. They may arouse the emotional part of your kid. Sometimes, you may even find the kid moved to tears. By listening to such terrifying events in the story, your kid learns that there are difficulties in life, which requires him or her to be strong. Your kid also learns how to go about controlling his or her emotions.

You can use the tales to teach your kid on how to behave. Some moral lessons are better taught through a story. You can look for a tale with a character with bad manners, to teach the kid the disadvantages of having such characters.

You can make your kid wise by educating him or her through different tales. You may buy some storybooks for your kids to read. You may also look for interesting short ghost stories online, and read with your kid. This will help cultivate a reading culture to your kids.




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