{"id":52493,"date":"2023-11-11T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=52493"},"modified":"2023-11-11T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T12:18:42","slug":"early-childhood-reading-brings-lifelong-rewards-and-is-tied-to-better-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/11\/early-childhood-reading-brings-lifelong-rewards-and-is-tied-to-better-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Early childhood reading brings &#8216;lifelong rewards&#8217; and is tied to better mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_52491\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52491\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52491\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dad-daughter-reading-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dad-daughter-reading-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dad-daughter-reading-770x513.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dad-daughter-reading-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dad-daughter-reading-360x240.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-52491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young black father and daughter reading book outside<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span>baby is never too young to be introduced to books, be it in the cot, a waterproof one in the bath, or a buggy book on trips out. But learning to read as a child is quite a feat\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/early-childhood-reading-brings-lifelong-rewards-and-is-tied-to-better-mental-health\/ar-AA1heNlz?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=9d45b6c3e8a1471dbe25d3e4ae57b07f&amp;ei=45\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; A baby is never too young to be introduced to books, be it in the cot, a waterproof one in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/baby-reading.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52495,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52493\/revisions\/52495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}