03/02/2025
“A person’s a person, no matter how small”
Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss! 🎈 March 2nd is Read Across America Day 📚 🙏🏻 Feeling honored to be featured on our wonderful local Pediatrician’s media pages on this special day!
📖 Here are the top 5 things I love most about children’s books and reading throughout my years of using them as a key part of my counseling sessions with kiddos, along with then incorporating them so much in the home setting too after having kids of my own 🙂:
💕 Reading is a wonderful, simple, and not very time consuming SHARED experience for both kids and adults to get some extra 1:1 time during their busy days (complete w/ those awesome cuddles too of course if it happens to be a bedtime read 😴)
💕Reading helps spark so much critical thinking and often times leads to comments and questions on the child’s end
💕Reading and children’s books allows the child’s world to expand in their mind. It helps grow their imagination through both the words heard and imagery observed
💕Reading can be a simple way for grownups to help teach hard or somewhat complex topics to kids using developmentally appropriate language (as educators and parents we don’t always have the answers or “right” way to explain something just sitting readily available in our mind, but chances are there’s a book out there that does! 🙂)
💕Group readings can be an easy and quick way to help teach the concept of turn-taking in young kids through help with turning the pages, which in turn also helps keep children’s attention/focus during story time (most kids love to help out or be called on for special tasks….). Tip: Kids still not paying attention/easily distracted? Encorporate a puppet to read the story instead! 😉 Or perhaps it’s just not quite developmentally appropriate enough yet for them, which is A-OK!
