Why teaching your child is so important?

Many people often use two very different words as if they were the same. The words are learning and educating. Learning generally refers to the process that goes on in the one who is acquiring knowledge, while educating is often the learning process guided by a teacher or school. Although everyone knows this, these two processes are frequently thought of as one and the same.

Because of this we sometimes feel that since formal education begins at six years of age, the more important processes of learning also begin at six years of age.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Every normal child learns virtually an entire language between the age of one and five. He learns it with the exact accent of his nation, his state, his city, his neighborhood and his family. He learns it without visible effort and precisely as it is spoken. Who ever does this again? Nor does it stop there. Every child who is raised in a bilingual household will learn two languages before he is six years old. Moreover, he will learn the foreign language with the exact accent of the locale in which the parents learned it. Every child who is raised in a trilingual household will speak three foreign languages before he is six years old.

Most sets of instruction begin by saying that unless they are followed precisely, they won’t work. In contrast to that, it is almost safe to say than no matter how poorly you expose your baby to reading, he is almost sure to learn more than he would if you hadn’t done it; so it is one game while you will win to some degree no matter how badly you play it.

Nonetheless, the more cleverly you play the game of teaching your tiny child to read, the more quickly and the better he will learn to read. If you play correctly the game of learning to read, both you and your child will enjoy it immensely. It takes less than half an hour a day.