Thursday, 3 July 2014

Finding Empowering Books For Preschool Girls

By Rosella Campbell


Reading with a daughter is one of the most memorable and meaningful ways to nurture your relationship with her. There are many parent resources and book reviews to help with the selection of empowering books for preschool girls. These are available from many different sources, including online stores. The genres include not only fiction but biographical and informative literature too.

There are many other benefits to be obtained from reading to a child besides the bonding experience. Children are very responsive at a young age and a colorful, exciting book with beautiful illustrations is a wonderful way to stimulate their imagination. Possibilities are opened up to them and their curiosity for learning more about life is encouraged.

Little girls often identify strongly with the main character in a story. If this main girl character is brave and resourceful, this can have an influence on a child, inspiring her to be just like the character in the story. In many of the classic tales, a helpless female is rescued by a strong male. Although the classic tales will always be well loved, it is important to introduce a daughter to current stories too, starring intrepid, spunky girls who are quite capable of dealing with any problems that arise.

There are stories being written today where tricky social issues are dealt with like bullying, self image, gender and respect for others. These issues are often dealt with in an entertaining way without being too preachy. The child does not even realize that they are learning valuable life lessons because they are so thoroughly entertained.

It is up to you to do more than just read the story. Stimulate discussion by asking your daughter what she thought about the main character. Did she like her or dislike her and why? You can help your daughter to relate the incidents in the stories to real events in her own life. For example, when a little girl in a story shows great bravery in the face of a daunting situation, you can help your daughter to identify with what it feels like to be brave and unafraid in her own life situations.

Going to school for the first time can be daunting and reading to a child is a wonderful way to help prepare for this. In this way, a child can be prepared socially, emotional and intellectually for this big step. Self image, relating to others, problem solving and taking responsibility for actions can all be addressed within the context of reading stories and discussing them together.

Reading to a child also helps to develop their vocabulary. Research has shown that reading to preschool children helps to ease the transition from one language developmental stage to another. The transition from reading to them to them reading themselves is not as difficult as for those children whose parents do not read to them.

Reading plays a crucial role in early childhood development. Finding well written stories with lovely illustrations is not difficult today, especially with access to online stores. There are many resources for parents to help them find the best books for a preschool daughter, including reviews written by other parents. Exciting stories with colorful characters can help to stimulate a relationship between your daughter and books that lasts a lifetime and opens doors throughout her life.




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