Hello, everyone. I’m so happy to talk to you today, about reading, about reading with your family. And I will begin with some ideas about why doing read and how it can help the family and be part of the time family get together. So, the first thing that I want to share with you today is about why we read and how important it can be for building relationship in the family. So many many many times we hear “Read! Read!” to your children. But what does it do to the children besides telling them the story? So, one thing, a very important thing is that the reading gives children the sense of happiness. 第一個觀點，親子共讀可以有效鏈接家庭關(guān)系，我們無數(shù)次的讓孩子讀，讀，讀，但是除了故事之外，孩子獲取的那種和諧家庭氛圍里開心閱讀的幸福感是最重要的。

So when the children have time with their parents, they are so happy. It doesn’t matter really what they do, because parents, these days, are so busy. We have so many things to do, so much work, so many responsibilities. We are trying to do everything the best for our children. And sometimes the children have so much time alone, or so much time away from mother and father. So, reading time can be a nice quiet time you use to sit together, you hold your child and give the child feeling of love and make them happy to have the attention. And also they are all the time learning from their parents. 如今我們的家長實在是太忙碌了，為了孩子美好的未來，我們有很多的事情需要做，同時孩子們也經(jīng)常一個人或者不在父母身邊。這樣一個安靜的，和孩子一起閱讀的時間，可以讓孩子感到被關(guān)注，感到愛的流動。

So, when they have this time with mother and father, any activity that you do together becomes a special kind of loving activity. And reading, in the modern times, sometimes, we think, why is it so important? That we have all information from internet, from videos, from television and radio. We have satellite radio, all kinds of other ways, to get our information. But still reading is so important for the development of the child’s brain. So it is so important it is the happy activity for the children. So when we read to the children, it makes this very happy activity that gives them much chance for learning and bringing development. 網(wǎng)絡(luò)科技發(fā)達(dá)的今天，我們通過各種渠道獲得信息，閱讀為什么還如此重要？閱讀對孩子的成長有至關(guān)重要的意義，在這個幸福的活動中，他們有充分的自我價值，信心滿滿的學(xué)習(xí)，從而實現(xiàn)個人成長。

And in this time, when the children are so young, they are still learning so much about the world. And even with a video or internet, sometimes they need time to look at the world in a different way. And the books can do that for them. And when they do it with the parent, it becomes an excitement for learning and knowing new things. So we can use the books to introduce new things, but more than words, more than pictures. The books have a special way of introducing ideas and beliefs and all kinds of understanding using the mixture of the words and pictures. So sometimes the pictures are as important as the words. 盡管有各種電子設(shè)備，有時候孩子們還是需要不同的看世界的角度，書本恰恰可以做到。當(dāng)和父母一起開心閱讀時，孩子們是如此的興奮去學(xué)習(xí)新鮮的事物。所以，我們可以用書做媒介，向孩子們傳遞理想，信念和對世界的不同認(rèn)識。

OK, so we can see that the reading with the children can give them a new kind of feeling and relationships, and a new kind of communication and learning, especially for the young children as maybe they do not know words.They learn to point to the pictures. They can have little conversation with you through the book and through the new ideas. And we can choose books that make the children feel different feelings and they can start to develop their emotions through looking in the pictures and talking about pictures and the story with the parents. They can start to learn about different things, maybe sadness or feeling with people. 親子共讀給了孩子全新的感覺和關(guān)系，全新的溝通和學(xué)習(xí)模式。各種各樣的書，可以幫助孩子理解不同的感情，從而發(fā)展他們的情緒，比如悲傷這樣的情緒。

So reading can help the child learn to understand some very complicated things and emotions, many things we cannot talk with them about without the pictures and the story. We can use the story to create a conversation when something important happens in the child’s life. Maybe it can be learning about something very sad or some new kind of surprise. Or for me, Viosan is new brother. I’m doing reading books about new baby, new brother. How do we understand that the family can grow? When my son cannot talk about this, we can use pictures and the story. And it can make him very happy about this new thing. 閱讀可以幫助孩子們理解更為復(fù)雜的事情和情感。我們可以用書來幫助孩子認(rèn)識發(fā)生在他生活中的比較重要的事情。比如，我經(jīng)常和兒子一起閱讀關(guān)于新生兒，兄弟之間的故事，這樣兒子就可以理解一個家庭是如何成長的，從而期待小弟弟的到來。

It’s important to know that sometimes it takes a while for reading with the child to have this kind of feeling or make this relationship with the parent. Sometimes children don’t have the attention at first for reading. They are distracted. They don’t want to sit for a long time and listen to the story. So we can start very small or we just stop the story when the child longs to stop. But we can continue doing it again and again and make it routine. And this is the next step; this is how we read with the family. 有時候，執(zhí)行親子共讀并不是很容易的事情。孩子們不能集中精力，長時間安靜。那么父母們不要著急，我們可以從最簡單的開始，逐漸的在家里形成閱讀的慣例。（慣例，這個詞是學(xué)校教育，家庭教育和親子關(guān)系中非常有效的工具！）

The next thing is how to do the process. It’s important that there aren’t a lot of other things for the child to have distractions. We don’t want to read with our child when they have in front of them their favorite video game or something that they want to go away and do different activity for a while. It’s important to create a kind of quiet time or time when the family is usually together. Early in the morning or in the evening are very good times when the child is more likely to sit still or one’s mother or father to hold them, so that they can have that kind of feeling together. 如何形成慣例呢，其實也不難。我們需要找到合適的場景和合適的時間。孩子的注意力不會被分散，同時是家庭成員經(jīng)常在一起的時間。

So if I read to my child when he or she already has that feeling,er... I want to see my mommy, I want to see Daddy, I want someone to hold me, and talk to me, and look at me, that is a good time to do this kind of quiet activity. And my child will not feel that I want to do something more exciting, I want to go away, I want to be outside. My mother always did this after dinner when we had eaten our food, we all ready we all together. You know your family. You know when you are usually together and have time. That’s a good time to plan a short reading time. 當(dāng)孩子們感覺到想和父母在一起的時候，是閱讀的最好時機(jī)。我媽媽經(jīng)常在飯后給我們閱讀。所以當(dāng)家庭成員都在一起的時候，是閱讀的最佳時機(jī)。

Also it’s important if you have the small child, to hold the child while you’re reading. This is really important to get that feeling of happiness about reading. When the child feels so happy that I have the attention from mother or father I want to be held and feel love from mom or dad, then they start to connect that feeling with the reading activity and reading time. This makes reading a happy activity for the child. So many children today don’t feel interested in reading. Partly they don’t feel that it is an activity that is enjoyable for them. And one way to do that is to connect the feeling of love in family to reading. 當(dāng)孩子感覺到被父母關(guān)注，他們就把這種美好的體驗和閱讀活動緊密聯(lián)系在一起。如今，很多孩子不愛閱讀，是因為閱讀不是個愉悅的行為。我們家長就要創(chuàng)造機(jī)會，把家庭的愛的氛圍和閱讀關(guān)聯(lián)起來。

So, now we have, we read for the family time and the connection. We read in a time when we are quiet and we are together, and there aren’t distractions, myself and my child, we don’t feel a hurry to go somewhere else or to dosomething else. We create a routine where the child feels the sense of regular and normal activity and something that is a part of the family and a part of the daily activity. It can be any place, right? But sometimes it’s good to help the child feel routine by choosing one time and one place the same every day. 當(dāng)我們和孩子在一起閱讀是，我們是安靜的，全神貫注的，而不是有匆忙離開的想法。這樣，我們和孩子共建了一個慣例，讓孩子感到了常規(guī)，規(guī)律。每天同一時間，同一地點，他開始期待同樣的美好。

Finally, we can involve the child in the reading and help them learn that the reading is not just activity that mother and father do for me, but they are a part of the reading and part of the story. They don’t have to know reading. They don’t have to know how to read. They don’t need to know even many words. When I read to my child, I can ask him or her questions, I can show the pictures, I can let my child point, or smile, or laugh if it’s a funny book.That way of reading is not just activity that happens to the child, they don’t feel like that happens to me; it is an activity that I do. That’s the fina l thing that makes reading part of a child’s life. 和孩子建立家庭共讀的慣例，重要的是讓孩子成為閱讀的一部分，而不是被動的接受閱讀，最終閱讀會成為他們生活的一部分。

After my child is used to reading, and participates in the reading activity, the one big important benefit for the child is the learning of critical thinking. This is why we want to involve the child in the reading, the reason I ask questions, the reason I have the child turn the pages. Maybe we go back and forth and look at different pages more than one time or my child can start to communicate with me through the pictures, through pointing or asking questions or telling me the story of the picture, because the involvement of my child’s thinking helps to develop a problem solving and communication process. 當(dāng)閱讀形成慣例，最大的好處是，孩子開始了他們的思考過程，也就是批判性思維的形成。問題的互動，書本的來回翻閱，促進(jìn)了孩子交流溝通的欲望。這樣，孩子的思考的過程就會促進(jìn)他們解決問題和溝通能力的提高。

So the sooner my child can develop this process, the better ways of critical thinking he or she will develop. They will, my children will learn to ask questions as they observe. They will learn to observe all the story or all the picture. This eventually will transfer into life, into school and into problem-solving for personal life. They will start to see how I can step back and look at more details, how I can ask more questions, or get more information, or I can learn to connect different information from different parts. 孩子越早形成這樣的慣例，越有助于他們形成批判性思維的能力。他們通過觀察，提出問題。然后這些思考最終轉(zhuǎn)化到他們的生活中，學(xué)習(xí)中，解決個人問題中。

So this is the academic and life benefit of reading for the child. But it begins with developing the relationship and developing the communication process in a safe and happy place with the parents. It will build confidence of the child to ask questions, to share ideas, to share observations and to try to solve problems, feeling confident that I can find information, I have a good observation, I have a way to get and to share information. And that’s the critical thinking process. 這是閱讀給孩子帶來的學(xué)術(shù)和生活方面的利益。但是，這些都是開始于安全的開心的時間地點，家庭關(guān)系的建立，溝通過程的確立。孩子自信的提出問題，分享觀點，分享觀察，解決問題。這些就是批判性思維的開始。

Finally, the last benefit that I see from reading is that the child has a new skill. As they get older, they read better and better. They can read to mother and father, instead of mother reading to them. It will become an enjoyable activity. It can become a life-long hobby, one way of learning and gaining information, but also a peaceful way of containing something enjoyable where the child can look for topics that he or she enjoys and it will continue as a hobby into adulthood. 我的觀點里，閱讀也是孩子的一個新技能。當(dāng)她們不斷的成長，她們開始愛上閱讀， 開始給父母閱讀，然后閱讀成為了陪伴孩子終身的愛好和技能。

Finally, reading also changes the activity of the brain. Of course,we can get the same story from a video, or from radio, even if someone is reading the story. But the activity of reading uses the brain in different ways. We know from studying adult learners that memory changes, the way we remember things when we read and write is different from how we remember them when we watch a movie or listen to something. So there’s this benefit of the brain activity that can be an exercise for the brain. All these things are so important. 同時，閱讀改變大腦的行為。閱讀的過程中，大腦的工作不同于看視頻，聽錄音。在閱讀的過程中，大腦的記憶路徑是不同的。

The first thing we want to do to get our child start in the critical thinking and asking questions is to be a good model. That means you ask thequestion, and ask questions where the child must think about the response, ask when, and why, and how, and what do you think. These are really important ways to get the child thinking and connecting different information, or to look more deeply in the story, to look more deeply in the pictures, to find answers that are not in the words of the story. 想要讓我們的孩子形成批判性思維的能力，首先我們要做模范。你要學(xué)會問問題，各種問題可以促進(jìn)孩子深入思考。

After that, the child will start to see the possibilities of thinking more deeply, and will start to realize or know there can be more in the story than the words. The child, not all children, not really think this way. Some do. And that’s very easy. Some children are very full of questions. So we can just encourage more questions and give them praise and be excited when they ask questions. 在和父母的問題互動過程中，孩子發(fā)現(xiàn)了更多的深入思考的可能性，然后就意識到了，文字背后有更多的未知。如果你的孩子是個愛問問題的人，那么你一定要表揚，贊賞，同時當(dāng)她們問有意思的問題時，你要表達(dá)你的激動。

If the child does not have a lot of questions, my questions will help him or her. And after sometime they see there’s more in the story than the words. The child will start to ask more questions. Most children do this naturally. If they are shy, or they don’t want to ask questions, then after some practice and seeing parents asking questions, you can tell them what do you think and start to encourage the child ask their own questions.有些孩子不是很容易提出問題，但是，父母堅持提出問題，發(fā)表觀點，鼓勵思考，這樣他們就會自然開始提出問題。

One thing I want to add before we finish today is that it is never too early and never too late to start reading with your child, from baby to all their children. All children love to have time with their parents, and all children love to have someone to tell them a story. Even an adult would like to hear stories. So it’s never too early, never too late. Happy reading! 家庭閱讀什么時候都不早，什么時候都不晚。所有的孩子都喜歡聽父母讀故事。

Thank you so much for joining us today. I’m really happy to be able to share my way of reading with children and talk about the why and how and when. I hope the information is helpful for you and can help you to create a good reading environment in your house. 感謝大家收聽，祝愿大家能創(chuàng)造一個和諧的家庭閱讀氛圍。