{"id":171,"date":"2011-08-19T01:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=171"},"modified":"2011-12-01T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T21:42:21","slug":"parents-and-children-can-bond-over-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2011\/08\/19\/parents-and-children-can-bond-over-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents and children can bond over a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the <em>Herald Sun<\/em> is encouraging parents to read to their babies from an early age.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2011\/08\/Parents-and-children-can-bond-over-a-book-Herald-Sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-179\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2011\/08\/Parents-and-children-can-bond-over-a-book-Herald-Sun-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evidence-based parenting website, the Raising Children Network (RCN) says that listening to a parent&#8217;s voice and looking at pictures helps babies with bonding and development. The RCN is encouraging parents to make reading part of daily play, releasing a new guide on suitable books for children aged from four months to five years old.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharon Goldfeld, a paediatrician at the Centre for Community Child Health and a scientific advisory board member on literacy for the RCN said international studies had found reading to children from an early age was linked to better educational outcomes and aided children&#8217;s literacy and brain development, imagination and stimulated curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Goldfield said reading to children from an early age laid the foundations for social, communication and interpersonal skills later in life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Letting your baby hear your voice by sharing stories and talking will set (them) up for success later in life when (they are) learning to read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Raising Children Network is a consortium between the <a href=\"www.mcri.edu.au\">Murdoch Childrens Research Institute<\/a>, the <a title=\"Parenting Research Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parentingrc.org.au\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Parenting Research Centre<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartpopulation.org\/\">Smart Population Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/parents-and-children-can-bond-over-a-book\/story-fn7x8me2-1226116945961\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Raising Children Network at <a href=\"http:\/\/raisingchildren.net.au\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/raisingchildren.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Herald Sun is encouraging parents to follow the advice of the Raising Children Network and read to their babies from an early age. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}