How do families nowadays influence the reading habits of children?
Parents act as role models and they pass their own esteem of reading on to their children. Literary education includes not only reading books but also reading at the computer or reading a newspaper, listening to music attentively or watching a movie and understanding it. Parents should provide their children with opportunities to come into contact with diverse reading media and first and foremost, they should talk to their children about what they have read. I consider the communication following from the reading of a book or watching a film as a crucial factor leading to an esteem of literary education. If parents educate their children in this value-oriented way, chances are high that the children will continue to practice this cultural technique later in their lives. Parents are extremely important because they are the first instance of socialisation that is active right from the start. I think the Stiftung Lesen and its initiative Lesestart are on the right path when appealing to f
