I genitori avvertono che i bambini senza esperienza di lettura iniziano la scuola come “cittadini di seconda classe”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/children-reading-school-laureate-phillipson-b2938529.html
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I genitori avvertono che i bambini senza esperienza di lettura iniziano la scuola come “cittadini di seconda classe”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/children-reading-school-laureate-phillipson-b2938529.html
di insomnimax_99
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The invention of smartphones and tablets has devastated early childhood development.
Economically deprived areas that don’t have access to good childcare and early years education has been an issue for years and isn’t really addressed. We’ve done well at expanding the access to free childcare, but when places run out and some existing places aren’t of good quality, it’s another crisis that needs solving.
Yeah you should all have experience of Englands largest town.
It is foundational knowledge.
Children absorb knowledge at breakneck speed. If you go into a reception class at the beginning of the year compared to the end of it, the progress children have made is phenomenal.
The issue then is that if you fall behind, it’s extremely hard to catch back up. New learning requires pre-requisite learning, so if a child hasn’t fully grasped those pre-requisites, they’re going to find it really hard to access the new learning. That compounds throughout life.
Primary schools have more (but not unlimited) tools at their disposal to help children catch up, but if children haven’t reached a baseline level of knowledge and skills, they’re going to be lost in secondary where they’re required to be more independent. This is what lots of secondary schools are seeing – increased numbers of children arriving in year 7 without sufficient numeracy and English skills.
As someone who has gone through fertility treatment for years this breaks my heart. I dream about being able to read to my children.
Parents who need to be warned about this are not going to listen.
Smartphones and technology is partially to blame but we don’t talk enough about the fact that our society does everything possible to destroy and dismantle the family unit. Parents are not allowed to parent. Your forces back to work as soon a possible, young children put into pre-school nurseries and day care because their parents need to go back to work to pay the bills. We don’t seem to value the benefit a child gets in normal circumstances by being brought up by their parents.
I also think that many of the issue we are seeing kids and young adults develop is because they didn’t experience that family unit growing up. Look at the set up in many of the Scandinavian countries with the levels of leave given to the father as well as the mother and that countries lower levels of mental illness in children and teenage in that country.
Invest in families so families have the space and ability to carry out the essential task of raising their own children
Its insane that almost 50% of kids are starting school without being read to. We’ve been reading to our baby since he was born, and hes only 12 weeks. This past week he’s started really engaging with the books. He was already trying to hold them, but now hes started lifting the flaps on the flap books. Yesterday, he told his dad off for not turning the pages quickly enough. It makes me sad to think so many people are missing out on this.
I know books can be expensive, but just go to local charity shops. Yesterday, we hit 5 in a row. One was doing a deal of 4 for 1 pound and the others had loads of childrens books for 1 quid. Almost all look brand new.
As a mum of two little ones, this breaks my heart as I absolutely love reading stories with them.
My 3 year old was asked at preschool what is favourite thing about me to put in his Mother’s Day card, he said “I love my mummy reading me stories” and my 1 year old “reads” stories by mimicking the rhythm of Tabby Mctat.
I know there’s probably a lot of social economics that will play a part of this but libraries are free and often have things on for children and should be encouraged more. Children should have access to books and parents should be reading to them from early on.
It’s a hard cycle to break though as these children won’t enjoy reading themselves, so won’t pass that onto their children when they are older.
Sorry, but there’s no excuse for this! We’ve read to our three year old daughter every night before bed. This is just shitty parenting!
Some children are not even toilet trained and are on tablets 24/7 on top of being behind peers; it comes to a point where the state can’t do everything and parents need to start looking at themselves.
It is a shame that many Parents and their offspring are losing out by the digital parenting.
Ah, well, most Brits end up at the level of a 9-year-old anyway.
How do you have a kid then not put the minimum effort in like reading to them? Why bother having a kid?
Frustratingly, deprivation is often blamed for things like this, but books cost next to nothing, and are free from libraries. We probably all know someone whose children have iPads, but very few books.
Being read to before bed was a highlight for me. As was going to the library to get some new books. There seems to have been a massive shift in what parents think is their job, and the state’s job though. That includes things like learning to eat with cutlery, and toilet training.
I was worried for a second. I thought it meant them reading to themselves for a minute.
We read a dozen books a day to them.. They ask constantly. Can’t imagine them not being read to.
How many parents actually read books themselves though? If that’s not a part of their life then they probably won’t think it’s a necessity to read with their child
My Goddaughters are definitely iPad kids and it drives me mental. I buy them books and playsets and colouring books for every birthday and Christmas and their tablets are not allowed when they come to visit my house. The eldest is seven and by the time I was her age, I’d already read all of Roald Dahl’s books and was making my way through Jacqueline Wilson, Cathy Cassidy and the Chronicle’s of Narnia. I would imagine they couldn’t tell me a favourite book if I asked them.