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reading to the baby (X-posted)
"ted" wrote in message om... My dd is 8.5 months old. I would love to read to her. I want her grow up liking books. But there's a problem. She chews on EVERYTHING. She loves to put everything in her mouth except food ofcourse! If she so much as sees a book, she'll chew it and tear it apart. And then you will pick up the book 2 years later and smile... She'll just jump at the book and destroys it (well.. as much as her tiny hands can). How can I read anything to her? I could buy cardboard books but then she'll chew them too and I don't know if I can clean them. Don't clean them. Can we get "plastic" books? Or should I just wait until she outgrows the chewing habit which is going ever since she discovered her hands. Thanks. I did not wait until ds outgrew the chewing stage. I just let him chew the books. It lead, for us, into reading them. S |
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reading to the baby (X-posted)
"Cathy Weeks" wrote: When reading to a kid that early, they don't always sit for the stories, even the simplest of ones. Mine went through such periods too, but if she was tooling around the room instead of looking at the book, I still think that there may be some value, for the OP, to read it to the child anyway. Exposure to words at that age is a good thing in any form, imo. P. Tierney |
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reading to the baby (X-posted)
Cathy Weeks wrote:
Both my stepson and now my daughter LOVE Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! I was surprised at how much my daughter, who turns 2 next month, liked it - from the very first time I read it to her a couple of months ago. I was really taken aback at how much my second lvoed _Jamberry_. He was utterly devoted to it at about 12-15 months. My husband was actually scheming how to get the computer to read it to him and show him the pictures because he was getting royally tired of it ;-) I could lie in bed in the dark and recite _Jamberry_ to him when he was being fussy. Incidentally, that author of Chicka, Bill Martin, just published another book in conjunction with Eric Carle - (very hungry caterpillar) who did the artwork - it's called "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, what do you See?" and it includes all endangered animals. They did two others (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you See and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear?), and this is hands down my favorite. Yes, I've seen that one and will probably have to get it, as the boys loved the other two and I'm sure Genevieve will like them too--who wouldn't?! Best wishes, Ericka |
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