There is no doubt that all parents want their children to succeed, whatever they do; this is especially true when it comes to succeeding in school. Today's schools expect children to know the alphabet and begin reading and writing in kindergarten, adding further pressure on parents. In response to that pressure, many companies have now developed products that claim that if you watch their DVDs and use their flashcards you will teach your child to read, even before he can talk. While these types of media can help a child reach their reading potential, books should still be the number one medium to use. When parents begin reading to their children, they help them develop language skills and early literary skills and influence the child's later academic success. Over the years, many tests and studies have been conducted on the influence of reading on young children while they are at home. Many studies have shown that the home was the primary “predictor of a child's language development and literacy” (Roberts 356) later in life. This is not a big surprise since the most important time for language acquisition for a child is the second year of life (Lawhon 114). Therefore, when a parent reads to a child, they introduce new vocabulary that can be associated with an element on the page. Additionally, when parents read to their children, they usually speak more slowly and sound out the sounds in words more clearly, this will help children make the connection about how sounds become words. Reading also helps children learn about conversation, and parents can use reading time to get their children to think critically at any age by asking questions and allowing the child to ask questions... center of the paper... A. “Just a book to get? Learning words by watching videos of children." British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 27(2009). Educational Resources Information Centre. Network. 13 July 2011Michael Robb, in his article “Just a Taking Book? Learning words by watching videos of children." (2009), his article addresses how (or whether) children under the age of two are able to learn words from the screen and, if so, how much this would affect their language. To answer this question he conducted a study on children aged between 12 and 15 months and their parents over a six-week period in which they would watch the Baby Wordsworth DVD to see if it would influence the child's acquisition of language. child. He found that children under two years old did not acquire any new vocabulary from watching this children's DVD. He established a formal relationship with his audience, his intended reader being these psychology colleagues.