Creating a Reader-Friendly Home

Create a special reading place
As kids grow, keep age-appropriate books and magazines on shelves they can reach in their favorite hangouts around the house. Make these shelves appealing and keep them organized.

Keep it appealing
Make sure reading areas have good lighting. Change the materials often — add seasonal books, rotate different magazines, and include books that relate to what kids are interested in or studying in school.

Encourage kids to create the reading
Set up a writing and art center and encourage kids to make books, posters, or collages that they decorate with their own pictures and writing.

Think About Atmosphere

Other ways to encourage kids to read:

* Give your child quiet time every day to read or write.
* Limit time kids spend in front of a screen to help ensure that they have time for reading.
* Read together. Offer to read a book aloud, or ask your child to read to you from a favorite magazine. Make a habit of sitting together.

10 Tips for Choosing Books for Children of All Ages

* Have children choose their own books as soon as they start showing a preference for one over another.
* Find the children's section of your local library. Get to know the librarian, who can be a great resource.
* Find out what your child is interested in
* Ask friends, family, and teachers what books their children have enjoyed
* If your child does not like a book you are reading together, put it away. Reading is a fun time to share, not a time to fight.
* Again, Again, Again! Children may want to read the same book many times, even if you think they have outgrown it.
* Use book lists generated by various literacy organizations;
* Look for books that you will like reading aloud. Your enjoyment will shine through and become contagious.
* Try out different kinds of books to see what appeals to your children.
* Have fun! Show your children the joy of reading and how it can open up a brand new world!

RAISING GENERATION

Every parent wants their child to be a good and moral person. We all try to get our children to do what we think is right and stay away from whatever we feel wrong.

Teenagers who are developing their own mind set as they are growing up. At this point, the question is:- how much the teenagers obey their parents and how reasonable are the values and beliefs that are enforced upon these young minds.

Both these questions are very hard to answer. Time to time they learn different things from their environment.

CULTURE

It is very obvious that culture had great significance for our previous generations. But the reality is that it would not be wrong to say that what culture means to us is very different from what it means to our child. Young adults nowadays do not look at culture in the same light as their parents. So when their parents try to tell themhow to behave according to customs and traditions, they don't have quite the same reaction.

Media has influenced a lot and children give more importance in media rather in their heritage.

Generation Gap 2009

MP3s ------- VINYL
JAMBA JUICE ----------OVALTINE
FLAMING LIPS---------ROLLING STONES
FACEBOOK----------PHONEBOOK
OBAMA----------HILLARY


It is good that children bring new changes in them and try to be modern according to the world but it is very necessary that children must not cross their limit, forget their religion and engage in mischievous attitude. Parents must look after them secretly what they do but never scold your them, talk to them in a polite and respectable manner because they also adopt behavior from their parents. Teach your child to balance your life. Though they adopt different customs and other things from media but they should always respect their parents. Most importantly they must remember their ethics and their faith.

HOW PARENTS SHOULD DEAL WITH UNDISCIPLINED CHILD?

ROOT CAUSES

Parents attitude towards education
Lack of Proper attention
Abusive Languages
High Expectations
Conflicts
Extra Ordinary Punishments
Comparison With Others
Friend Circle

SUGGESTIONS

PARENTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS EDUCATION
Parents must take interest in their child's educational performance and should attend PTA and should talk to teacher about his/her problem. Parents should also take interest in his/her efforts.

PROPER ATTENTION
Every child wants attention from their parents. When parents become careless about it. Child adopts different things to get attention and it may be negative or positive. There are certain difficulties and problems which every child has to face their life such as making new friends, changing class room, entering new schools, moving to new homes and cities.The illness or death of a family member or loss of a parent through divorce is especially traumatic. These times can be painful for school age children, and parents need to provide support and attention.

LANGUAGES
Use of languages at home creates the very bad effect on child's character. Therefore children must be provided good environment in their homes.

EXPECTATIONS
Most of the parents expect high expectation from their child and pressurize their child to fulfill it and if they fail parents punishes them. Therefore parents must not pressurize their child from fulfilling their expectations.

CONFLICTS
Conflicts between parents at home. Children adopts bad behavior from it. Therefore Parents must adopt patience and humbleness.

COMPARISONS
Every person are different from each others and with different skills so don't compare your child with others.

HELPING YOUR CHILD READ

READING

Children often see people in their lives who value reading and books. Parents and care givers are the best role. Show your children that reading is very important by reading yourself.

PLAN TRIPS TO THE LIBRARY AND BOOKSTORES

The public library is a wonderful learning place to help explore and discover new books and can enjoy reading. Libraries often offers reading activities free of charge. Be sure to check out their story hours.

GIVE MAGAZINES AND BOOKS TO YOUR CHILD AS GIFT

Let children select books that interest them. Having reading materials at home will encourage children to read more often.

TURN OFF TELEVISION

Children need quite time without distractions. It will encourage children to read more and for longer time.

TALK TO CHILDREN WHAT THEY HAVE READ

Ask them to tell you about stories and their feelings about the books they have read. This will help children to enhance their creativity skills.

REMEMBER

READING IS IMPORTANT FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES. AS CHILDREN GROW OLDER, BOOKS CAN EXPAND THEIR VOCABULARY, THINKING SKILLS AND ALSO THEIR CREATIVITY. ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO SPEND FREE TIME READING BOOK THEY ENJOY.

PARENT TEACHER PARTNERSHIP

PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PARENT TEACHER
AND CHILD

WHY SHOULD I BE INVOLVED?

Parents and guardian are their child first teacher. This role does not end when children enter school.Only 13% of a child’s time is spent in school. 87% is in the home and community.Studies shows that children whose parents are actively involved in their education perform much better.A CHILD IS BEST SERVED IF A PARENT CROSSES THE THRESHOLD OF SCHOOL

CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS

1. The environment of children in the electronic age
2. secular education burdens and they generally gives importance to their secular education.

SUGGESTIONS FOR PARENTS

1. Active role in School.
2. Always attend Parent Teacher Meeting
   
3. checking child's performance and watch what he does in internet.
4. Attend workshop and lectures program
5. Discuss with their child about religious and secular education
6. Children learn first and foremost from their parents so give quality time to them.
7. Encourage your child involvement in extra curricular activities.
8. Advice the teacher of any important personal issues situations or events which might effect your child’s performance.
9. At last try to build them strong relationship between parents, teachers and children.