Importance Of Newspaper Reading Habits Among Children

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”  Reading is a particular exercise that not only gives an insight to the world around, but gives us an inner relief. When we read a particular fiction or book, we start identifying ourselves with the characters of the book, and our life with the story line. By reading books, newspapers, journals, magazines, we actually get a reflection of the society. In this 21st century, it has become very much important to be updated. Newspaper is a great way of keeping ourselves updated. It generally contains hard news, soft news, articles, and editor’s note. Though many ways have been developed over the recent past to keep ourselves informed, but these couldn’t minimize the importance of newspapers. Newspapers are considered to be the best morning tea mate. But the habit of reading this must be cultivated in a very early age.

In the initial stage children may feel bore to read newspapers. So it depends upon the parents to generate the interest among children and involve them in reading the paper. Parents can in the initial stage, read out some news to the children and discuss about its impact with them. This sort of exercise makes children involved in the activity and when parents ask about their opinion, they start taking interest as well. Moreover, papers also contain comic strips. Children take more interest in reading those comics. So they can be regularly introduced with those topics which in long run infuse their interest to the reading habits. As newspapers contain news related to politics, this generates a child’s interest towards political issues of the country, how the government works, what are the latest plans that government has implemented and so on. This helps children become a responsible global citizen. Reading newspapers also benefits the kids as it improves their vocabulary.

Reading a paper requires patience. Children reading the paper often noticed to have more patience than children who don’t have this habit of reading. The importance of paper reading has well recognized by the modern day schools. Present day schools have sophisticated school library where different national and local newspapers are available to the children. There are special classes allotted for the newspaper reading. As papers contain news and stories related to multiple issues, kids get a detailed insight about the world around by reading it.

Parents can make a routine for every day newspaper learning so that children can be reap the benefit from that. News papers also contain kid’s columns so that children also find interest in that. In those columns lives of great men, short stories, poems and kids made art works take are published. This sort of interaction with the children influences them to aspire for their dream and chase those in life. News paper reading has a host of benefits. It ultimately depends upon the parents and teachers to cultivate this habit among children because it helps creating responsible world citizens.