Read books so your child has another teacher.

Love can only grow every day when we are given the opportunity to get to know each other. And maintaining the habit of reading with your child is the same…

Children's joy of reading at the Provincial Library.

Read books with your children

Have you ever gone to a coffee shop and seen a child so engrossed in reading a book that he or she doesn’t pay attention to his or her surroundings, while your child is glued to the screen of an iPad or phone? Immediately afterwards, there will be grumblings about the child and concerns about how to get books to the child.

But few people know that reading is just an action that is nurtured and practiced regularly. Working at the Provincial Library for many years and having the opportunity to interact with many students who come to read books, Ms. Do Thi Hai shared: If parents do not read books, it is difficult to hope that children will be attached to books. At first, when they do not know how to read, parents should read to their children, maybe fairy tales, pictures of animals. Let books become toys, become friends of children right from the first years of life, leaving a special impression in the child's memory. That is an opportunity for the child's journey to books to continue. When they grow up a little, when they can read, parents buy big-print comics for their children to read, from life skills books, science to history... and continue to sit and read with their children. The interaction and answering their questions makes children extremely satisfied. Over time, children begin to cherish books and have the choice to read according to their interests.

As for Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Hieu (Phu Trinh Ward, Phan Thiet City), she often chooses to read excerpts from books for her children to write down. This is a way to help children practice writing and arouse their curiosity about the wonderful and interesting things in the stories and the next chapters, so that they can find books to read on their own.

Provincial Library staff are rearranging books.

Book gift boxes

Not only now, when the activities of Book Day and Reading Culture are widely promoted, people know about the book reading models or book donation movements. Especially at the beginning of the new year, instead of giving each other lucky money envelopes, people send each other book gift boxes. It turns out that this custom has existed since the feudal period, since the spring of Giap Than 1944, writer Ho Bieu Chanh wrote: "It is so lucky to be able to read books in the spring. Perhaps thanks to that, when starting work again after Tet, the spirit is stronger, the mind is like youth, with a soul that is both noble and childlike, both patient and compassionate, and passionately patriotic". Encouraging learning and reading has been encouraged and inspired by intellectuals and writers for decades.

Maintain the habit of reading for children from an early age

It was a surprise when the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City announced: There were over 1 million people visiting Book Street (Le Loi Street, District 1) to visit and buy books on the occasion of Lunar New Year 2024, an increase of 11.1% compared to 2023. The festival organizers also gave away more than 16,000 books to locals and tourists. This shows that the attraction and demand for books from readers is increasing.

New book display at bookstore helps readers find books easily

Giving books as gifts is not only a trend but also an expectation of a cultural habit in the new era. Therefore, each family should try to create a separate bookshelf for their children with books that they love, which is a big step towards forming the habit of reading, finding and arranging books. In events from birthdays to holidays, achieving high academic achievements... we can all mark by giving our children books with meaningful dedications.

Giving books to children is giving knowledge and contributing to cultivating values for the next generations. In the rush of life, books are truly friends and teachers accompanying children in this vast world.

Writer Nguyen Nhat Anh - who has a talent for writing stories for children, once said: If children do not form the habit of reading, when they reach adolescence, even if books are shoved into their hands along with compliments about the benefits of reading, they will hardly listen.

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