… By taking time to read with their children, parents can help put them on a path to healthy, successful lives, says IWK Health Centre pediatrician Dr. Sarah Shea.
She co-edited a special issue of the journal Paediatrics and Child Health called “Learning to read: What physicians need to know — and do — about children’s literacy.”

As well as advising doctors, the journal encourages parents to read, talk, babble and sing with their babies…

“Sometimes people are a little bit skeptical about reading to babies so young,” she said. “But we really see the difference when parents are coming in with their second baby and they’re so excited to see us because they know the difference that it has made in their child’s life.” …

“Once we describe that their baby’s brain contains all the cells that they need for life, but the connections haven’t been made yet, I think that has an impact with them,” Ms. Laramee-Jones said.

Source: ChronicleHerald
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