Many children are starting school having never been read a story, a survey reveals today. Children know the stories in the Disney cartoons but are starting school with no experience of being told stories at home. Experts call it a "national disaster" and warn parents that this will fail children to develop their creative talents to lead a happy life.
Pie Corbett, an educational adviser of the government said:" This is just an economic thing-it is not just people who come from poor backgrounds, it is across the whole of society". He also included that too many children are left to watch TV, especially of those busy middle-class working parents. But children who read stories in a regular basis before starting school are more likely to succeed, researches show. Being told stories boosts language and children who read are being made to make them brainy, according Corbett.
A teacher who responds to the survey said: "Where are all those parent who sing and recite nursery rhymes to their children? We are created a generation who are failing to give the phonological start they need to become a capable reader".
My Opinion!!!
I absolutely agree that it must be a "national disaster" if parents do not read to their children. This means that parents view of raising children is now based on materialistic thoughts. They are "too busy" to make time and read for them for just a half hour in a whole day. It also shows that parents are starting becoming very selfish people who only care about themselves and their work. Children are becoming less interesting individuals of parents life's. No more then 10 years ago, however, parents use to sing and recite bedtime stories and rhymes for their children. What happened to them? What is happening to the parents and how are they willing to make their children develop and go to university? Parents should make a quick change before it is too late.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/30/childre-parents-reading-stories
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I also think that it is a disaster that parents apparently don’t read stories to their children anymore. I remember my mum reading stories to me on Sundays. I always asked her to read for me, I loved it. That made me want to read stories myself. I think it is a lack in raising children and I agree that parents should make a quick change!
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