Exploring Parental Attitude and Practices towards Story Book Reading

Abstract

Storytelling can be a purposeful action leading to positive outcomes. Classroom teaching strategies can employ storytelling to develop the linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional domains of young children. Parents reading to their children can yield hurclean benefits to their overall development. This study intended to explore the parental attitude and practices towards story book reading. A cross sectional study design was approached for this survey. A cross-sectional survey study design was employed for this study. A universal sampling method was employed to seek the responses from the caregivers. All the caregivers who agree to provide consent filled the form. The questionnaire was made on a Google link and was shared in a caregiver’s educational Facebook group. The data was collected from August – September 2021. This findings of this study provides some insights into building awareness programs for the parents to provide them with hand on skills to initiate, sustain and promote story telling at home.

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“…However, some of their practices were not found to be compatible with international parenting standards. For instance one of the mothers, showing great efficacy had been asking her child to read the storybook during story-telling time instead of reading the book to the child (Hess et al, 2004;Sturges & Bhamani, 2022). Similarly, another mother with a great efficacy level told her child to choose a toy to play with during free play which is the exact opposite of exploring the toys with children as per their wish.…”