Advice that’s more relevant now than ever before 😎
Kids today are bombarded with video games as well as fast action cartoons and movies. Picture book publishers are requesting shorter and shorter picture books for young children. No wonder our children have problems keeping their minds focused on one thing for very long.
What can you do to help your kids have a longer attention span? My advice is not some new technical invention or app for your phone or tablet, but something easy and inexpensive that you can do in your own home.
You can extend your children’s attention span by reading to them.
What better way to show them you love them and help them at the same time. Kids love getting attention from their parents and grandparents. This one-on-one time without any distractions from phones or TV is important. Children can later illustrate the stories you read together so you have a visual reminder of the time you have…
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I’m off to read the original! Thanks for sharing.
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Great idea to read to them and have them illustrate it–then the process belongs to them and isn’t just some other bit of stimuli to rush past them, like with computers or tv.
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Yep – and don’t forget the changing voices for each character, Donnalee 😀
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That is great too–so fun for everyone.
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YEP 😄😄😄
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Oh, yes! The voices are the most important thing. I love doing them.
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And making the faces, Dayne 😄
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My kids loved when I read to them. I’d read daily. They are adults now, but I can still remember the good times reading to them. I so miss it! 🙂
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Bet they’ll read to THEIR kids, Koko 😀
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If not, I will! 🙂 Hahaha. But, I bet they will too!
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