Reading For Pleasure - Parents Page

It Entertains you

All the benefits of reading mentioned so below are a bonus however, reading for its entertaining should be most valued   Much more enthralling than watching a movie or a TV show (although they have their many benefits as well), a good book can keep us amused while developing our life skills. We can use our own imagination and build the worlds off the page in our own heads. Once we have done that we can then, if we chose to do so, inhabit those worlds on our own terms. Re can revisit when ever we like and it doesn't cost us a penny!

It develops your verbal abilities

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Although it doesn’t always make you a better communicator, those who read tend to have a more varied range of words to express how they feel and to get their point across. This increases with the more books and stories you read, giving you a higher level of vocabulary to use in everyday life.

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It Improves Your Memory

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When you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. When you watch a film or listen to an audio book, your mind can wonder, you can leave to get a drink etc. and you don’t necessarily press pause. You let it happen and rejoin the story with out thinking about it. When you read you have to hold the point where you left in your mind in order to rejoin and for it to make sense.  The benefits of this increased activity keep your memory sharp and your learning capacity nimble.

It Improves Your Focus and Concentration

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Unlike blog posts and news articles which are short, fast reads for the 'now' only. Sitting down with a book takes long periods of time, where you need to focus and concentrate. This is at first is hard to do. Being fully engaged in a book involves closing off the outside world and immersing yourself into the text. You need time and imagination to construct that world which over time will strengthen your attention span.

It Reduces Stress

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In a recent study by University of Sussex, reading was shown to reduces stress.

Here is an interest fact that study found - learners only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the muscles. If you stuffer from anxiety then reading can help you reduce this on a day to day bases.  

It Helps You to Discover Yourself

Books can give us an opportunity to have experiences that we could not necessarily have in real life, by visiting different times, different worlds, and giving us access to different opportunities and events and allow us to listen into both the thought and feelings of others. They allow us to visit situations that might be dangerous for us if we did no in person. They allow us to travel along a journey with people we might not necessarily like or who we adore and all the time allowing us to learn the life skills they entail.

It Encourages Us to Act for the Greater Good

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According to a study done by the National Education Association USA, readers who enjoy the reading and improve the world. It goes on to explain, that people who Read for Pleasure are more likely to volunteer and preform charity work. Readers are also active participants in their communities and the world around them. Above all that very kind act of giving their time and effort to others has a return on their own well-being. 

It Improves Our Imagination

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It is often said that "people are only limited by what they can imagine." The worlds described in books, as well as other people’s views and opinions, will help you expand your understanding of what is possible. By reading a written description of an event or a place, your mind is responsible for creating that image in your head When you watch a film or a program on TV. the image is placed infant of you and you don't have to do any of the work. This act passive watching of the screen robs you of the ability to imagine and therefore limits you.

It Makes You Smarter

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Books offer an outstanding wealth of learning and reading gives you a chance learn much faster than finding out things by yourself in a relatively short amount of time. 

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There is a saying that goes like this: smart people learn from their mistakes while really cleaver people learn from the mistakes of others. 

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The quickest way to find out about the mistakes is to read about it.

It Makes You Interesting and Attractive

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We often talk about "being in the the conversation." The really cool thing about reading and knowing a lot of stories is you can see where other people have drawn upon their ideas.  When you make the connection between two or more ideas and when you are able to see links and talk about them, then you can join any conversation and sound like you know what you are talking about. this goes for fiction as well and none fiction. The less others have to explain to you, to catch you up with the group, the more engaging the conversation becomes. The more people you can talk to the more interesting the world becomes.