If you are a book worm you already know this. If you want your kids to be readers, you must read this.If you want to read more yourself, you have to read it, bookmark it, save it on your desktop, and revise it weekly.
My journey with books started early. I was a precocious reader and my choice of some books,needed monitoring . That’s something I can see looking back. But overall those books helped me cure my bad habits, learn to choose carefully and become a doctor. Reading also helped me become a self-employed doctor and now a writer, blogger, podcaster, and creative content creator in multiple media formats.
Almost everything I did and still do, starts with reading.Books and articles, newspapers, scientific papers, and magazines. If it’s something I would like to know more about, I will read about it. An interestingly written piece means, I will remember what it was about and if I learned something new from it.
10 Things About Being a Reader That I Never Told A Soul!
On a dinner table discussion last week amongst peers and friends I heard someone lamenting about how kids no longer read story books. That habit, if possible needs to start early and parents can be the best example setter in this regard. Let your kids see you read. That goes a long way in making them realize that reading,is also for pleasure and not just for studying.
- Reading helps me learn anything I want to. If it’s something worth doing there’s probably a book about it.
- Reading helps me learn how to make sense of the world better.
- I learned about past mistakes other people made and tips to avoid repeating them.
- I learned about self-help and self-improvement.
- I learned to focus on one word at a time and that’s the root of concentration.
- Reading can help me master a subject and become an expert.
- Reading helped me learn to empathize.
- Reading lets me dream.
- Reading is my way of finding calm in the middle of chaos.
- Reading helped me find myself when I thought I was lost .
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I think reading is simply essential to me (from as long as i can remember).. and I read to both my kids from when they were babies.. Today, my 20 yr old son enjoys reading as much as i do and we recommend books to each other,, while with my daughter, though she doesn’t read as much as I do, and has different tastes, does do her bit of reading as well 🙂
Its a parent who can help do this right.Thanks for sharing your memories Vidya
Reading really is one habit that everyone must inculcate in their lives. I am a reader too but I feel I need a lot more to read to get smarter.
We could all learn more if we could read even more.You hit the nail on the head with that one.
Interesting
Reading is out of fashion among my students now. Tough job making them read two pages, forget a whole book.
A sad state of affairs .It’s a crucial life skill.
I think anything I do begins with reading, too! And I love to read. I’ve been reading voraciously since I was young, too.
Yes it’s something I started young too
I love #7 on this list. Empathy is so important, and the more you learn about other people and cultures and lifestyles, the more you can understand and empathize. Great list – from a fellow avid reader.
Hi Elisa .Loved your favorite. Empathy is a sign of high EQ and we could definitely all work more on that.
Amrita, I love your list of benefits of reading! When I was a child, my parents had a book-lined living room. There was a world in those books!
We have a book lined living room too and it’s where we store our book treasures.
Such a good list! I started reading to my kids before a year old. Now, while they don’t read as much for pleasure, they excelled in school and college as good readers.
That’s wonderful Angie.Reading is alife long habit which can change lives