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reading to a book vandal
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toto wrote: On 9 Jul 2003 18:25:23 -0700, (missy) wrote: I am 21 years old and also a new mother. Is it true that reading to my newborn now can be beneficial to him in the next few years of his life? Reading to children has been shown to be the best predictor of the ease with which they learn to read on their own. OTOH, I don't think we *need* to read to newborns. Do it if it is fun.. Cuddle with your child and read simple books to him. Once the child is mobile, he may not want to be read to for a while, but it's a nice way to establish a bedtime routine as well. Don't beat yourself up for not reading to him early. Speech is *more* important than books early on. Children who learn to read well, come to school with more knowledge about the world around them and a large vocabulary of words they understand and words they can say. So talk to your child, tell stories.. Read when he is interested and model reading by having books around and reading yourself. Sometimes, when my kids were very small, I'd read to them out of something that *I* wanted to read. Mostly, they wanted contact and the sound of a voice. So I'd read the newspaper or a magazine, DH might read a textbook out loud -- it wasn't about the story, it was about the voice. (And we'd do this with animated voices and attention to the child -- it was actually kind of fun.) When my twins were very small, I can remember realizing that I wasn't talking to them: in fact, I might go hours at a time without using my voice at all. (I was TIRED! I think I'd have had PPD if I'd had the energy.) (And that's a joke: I suspect I WAS suffering from some PPD, but was mostly just exhausted and overwhelmed.) I knew they needed to hear my voice, but was having a hard time, so I started out by just reading the newspaper to them. It got my voice working again. And, as others have said, the modeling is also important. My kids have always seen us reading, we've always had at least one daily newspaper and a house full (overfull. . .) of books. meh -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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