Creating Reading Habit for Children

Creating the reading habit in children early life is not a popular activity yet. However, reading habit can play an important role in shaping a good character building to the children. The benefit of the reading habit is that it can help the children reaching their success in life. In this matter family’s role especially parents’ role will determine the love of reading as children habit.


Impressionable minds can be nurtured and molded in many ways. However books are the best tools used for reaching out to a child. Therefore, creating the love of books in children early is beneficial since reading is important for everybody. The importance of reading is in order to cope with new knowledge in the changing world of this technological age, reading also important to give understanding the differences between intelligence and wisdom. Hence, the greater exposure to the books and language toward reading in early life the better equipped for children to face this globalization era. However the reading habit is still on the decline stage, it is not a popular habit yet. Even though many people know how to read but they do not read enough. This matter happens today and one of the major factors may because of from the beginning, children has not been introduced to the books, so when they grow up they are not close to the books and later on they do not consider reading as their life’s habit.

Ideally children from early should be motivated to read and informed how to utilized reading materials to improve their own personality and their behavior toward social environment. In this context, roles of family especially parents are very important to promote reading habit to children. The family and parents should also aware of the lure of the electronic media such as television, internet, and other modern audio-visual media which can contribute a failure in creating reading as a habit for children.

 Since reading is fundamental, the family especially parents have a major role to play in motivating children to read from the early life, they should understand their crucial role in developing positive readers. With parents’ influence later on hopefully the children can have a lifelong reading habit. Based on this perspective, this paper will concern about family role, especially the parent’s role in creating reading as children’s habit.

The families and parents role in creating reading habit for children from early can hopefully shape the reading habit as lifelong habit that will continue to grow throughout the children’s life. Although a lot of time and attention are needed to create reading habit for children but parents’ afford in promoting reading as an enjoyable activity, provides an educational opportunity for children to grow and develop mentally. The other implication of creating reading habit is that it can give children an appreciation and respect for books, enhances language and vocabulary development, and allows for quality family time, among other things. By teaching children to love and respect books, it gives children a head start to succeeding in life. The cooperation of all family members especially parents the success in creating reading habits for children will not to be far. The process may be long and difficult but the benefit will be greater. Therefore, creating the reading habit is a challenge in developing children quality for their future.