Baby & Child Mental Health
The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) emphasizes that, as a positive parenting practice, shared reading helps build the foundation for healthy social-emotional, cognitive, language and literacy development. This sets the stage for school readiness and providing enduring benefits across the life course. - Beyond Literacy: Shared Reading Starting at Birth Offers Lifelong Benefits
"Children who first encounter books in the arms of their parents, when they are very young, arrive at school associating books and reading with lap-time, a sense of security, interactions, stories, rhymes and entertainment, and above all with the beloved voices of the adults with whom they have those all-important early relationships." - Dr. Perri Klass, MD, FAAP
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