Joie de Vivre wrote:Do you know how easy it is to do a simple thing like READ TO YOUR KIDS?? You just all pile in the bed, read one book to all the kids (yes, including Fletcher), and it's done.
My younger son had delayed speech, so on top of therapy, we read to him ALL THE TIME. When he was very small, we would read the same rotation of five books with him in our laps, and he loved it. He outgrew his speech issue, and is the top reader in his class. His vocabulary astonishes me.
She was acting like she was being "so funny" and "so real" when she was admitting she didn't read to her two month old, and while I don't think it makes someone a bad mother for not reading to their infant, it really means you're not reading to ANY of your children. We all know that if one child is being read to, ALL the children are being read to (because kids all pile together during reading time).
I read to my boys every single night. It's part of the ritual. We first do this thing where we get all the wiggles out, then choose a book, then we get into bed (all four of us - my husband, my sons, and me), then we read. We've gone through all the Harry Potter books, the Narnia books, every Doctor Seuss known to mankind, the Shel Silverstein books, Roald Dahl, tons of fairy tales, etc. It's SO MUCH FREAKING FUN.
I can't say that I'm shocked, but I'm a little shocked she admitted it so freely which such a message of, "Oh, I'm so real and funny!!!"
Totally unrelated but I am SO excited to read more advanced books to my son when he's older.
Hes 18 months old and is wild but he ALWAYS sits still for reading. I'm shocked that even though the kid never stops moving and climbing he will be entranced by my reading and I attribute that to reading to him since he was born. And when they're that little it feels silly but you can just show them the pictures and read them to quietly. Its such a fun time and it gets better as they get older.
I never read the Harry Potter books but I already have a cool limited edition set for him that we can read together before bed when he's ready. I remember REALLY getting into books at around 10. I would bring them with me everywhere. I would read them at the dinner table and I'd get in trouble. In the car, before bed, in the bath. Its such a wonderful hobby. Now I'm 24 and NEVER read except my sons board books and I wished I made the time these days but by bedtime I'm just watching Netflix and reading seems like a chore, isn't that horrible.
Ok don't get mad I ranted, sorry!
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