Contents:
- Medical Video: What Can Storytelling Teach Us About Creating Connection? | Doug Lipman | TEDxWilmingtonSalon
- Benefits of storytelling for babies
- 1. Strengthen the relationship between children and parents
- 2. Increase vocabulary
- 3. Introducing the shape of the object
- 4. Helping social development, emotions, and thinking skills
- 5. Helping the speech process
- 6. Train the baby's response
Medical Video: What Can Storytelling Teach Us About Creating Connection? | Doug Lipman | TEDxWilmingtonSalon
Storytelling is one way to introduce reading activities to children. You don't need to worry whether it's too early to introduce words and language through reading activities. A number of studies have even shown that there is no word too early to introduce words and languages through storytelling activities for babies.
However, do you really need to tell stories to babies? Do they understand what you say? Can reading really make children smarter? Well, actually until now there is no data that proves storytelling for babies can make children 's IQ high or they will later achieve in school.
However, there are several reasons why storytelling for babies is very important for its development. Here's a complete review and storytelling tips for babies that you can try with your baby.
Benefits of storytelling for babies
1. Strengthen the relationship between children and parents
A study published in Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics shows that storytelling activities will strengthen your relationship with your baby.
Reading from a baby means your son and daughter hear your voice more often, namely their parents. Hear parents' voices since babies are able to build strong bonds and trust between parents and children until they grow up.
2. Increase vocabulary
A study shows that children who have been taught to read from a baby will have more vocabulary and better numeracy skills than other children who have not been taught to read from a baby.
The study also shows that the more words that babies hear when you tell stories, the better their language skills will be.
3. Introducing the shape of the object
Babies aged one to three months will be more focused on seeing simple patterns in the storybook that you show. Storytelling for baby books will indirectly introduce the shape of the object, words, and colors to your baby. Therefore, choose a children's story book that is simple and many pictures so that your baby can enjoy it too.
4. Helping social development, emotions, and thinking skills
When you tell stories to babies, your baby will notice how you convey emotions (happy, angry, or scared) with different facial expressions and sounds. Without your realizing it, it will help your child's social, emotional and thinking development.
5. Helping the speech process
Reading can stimulate the development of the baby's brain. When you tell stories to babies, they will receive information and start learning about sounds, sounds, words and sentences. Therefore, children who are accustomed to reading or listening to stories from an early age tend to speak more quickly.
6. Train the baby's response
Your baby is not able to respond to stimuli with clear words. However, when you listen to your story, your baby can respond through the movement of his hands and feet. This response and stimulation will activate various nerve cells in the baby's brain faster.
So, while storytelling for babies, you can stimulate your baby's response. For example by repeating each sentence. This can help babies record sentences better and respond by imitating your lips or facial expressions when you tell stories.
