Some parents are very distressed, because their children are no interested in reading, no matter how they induce their children to read.

He Zhen(a researcher comes from Family Education Research Center of ZhengXiang, shanghai, as well as be known as an expert who research and practice the problem of family education. Now, he is serving as a family education expert consultant to the Department of Education, Women’s Federation and the Youth League Committee at some areas.): How to induce children to like to read. In the process of educating my own child, I have taken three avenues:

First, buy more books which your children like, meanwhile, guide them to read the related books. Some parents buy the books that just consider whether it can help their children’s study or not. Such as, one lesson with one practice, compositions collection, and so on. The facts have proved that the more these books you buy, the more they would weary of study.

My son usually likes to read the books about Altman, so I bought a lot of these books to him, and then guided him to read the related books. Such as: robots, science, tell me why, as well as dinosaurs, animals and plants, and so on. Even though he is 8 years old, he has already read more than 400 books. The books which he read refer to every type, even including the very boring and difficult physics and chemistry.

Second, buy books to your children continually and create an environment which all family members are book-lovers. With the reading atmosphere and without interference reading choice, as well as the specific restriction on reading time and quantity, then, the collection of books in your family will become more and more. At that time, your children will love to read naturally.

According to a test, I found that if a second grade primary school child has more than 100 books besides the textbooks, almost every child would like to read. So, my suggestion is that parents should spend over 100 yuan on buying books to your children per month. Therefore, after your children graduate from elementary school, they will have nearly 800books. By reading these 800books, your children not only like to read, but also can get the larger information than that from the textbooks.

Third, you should be a listener and share your children’s feelings which they get from reading. When your children want to share their own knowledge they have learnt, no matter his expression is specific and accurate or not, you should be dedicated to listen. When they talk something you do not know, you should reflect your pleasure surprise and heartfelt appreciation to them by your language and expression and admit our ignorance. Therefore, our children will find the self-confidence and a sense of success from our ignorant.