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What do you read to your baby?
I have heard many times that it's never to early to start reading to your child. ?So two nights ago I read her part of "the Little Prince" which I have never read before. ?I thought to myself it might be fun to read that for the first time with her when she can understand it. ?So now I am reading Harry Potter to her. DH thinks it's funny but I am thinking "hey all she knows is that I am talking to her so what does it matter what I read?"
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Re: What do you read to your baby?
Before naps and at bed time, I always read her a picture book.
Sometimes they're board books of hers, or some are from my favourites collection (being a teacher really helps! I have hundreds). She really likes the repetition in some of the stories. Like when I read her "Love you Forever" and the part where she rocks her son "back and forth, back and forth, back and forth" and I rock in the chair with her, she anticipates it and loves it.
When she goes down for a nap in her crib, she likes me to read to her to bore her to sleep. So I read novels to her. We just finished a volume of the Royal Diaries, about Cleopatra (a diary as a preteen). It's good historical fiction!
As long as you're exposing them to the sounds, rhythms and patterns of speech, and showing them the fun in repetition (so they can predict and eventually, join in on their favourites), they're getting something out of it.
I also am a huge believer in that reading to them builds their vocabulary. So read whatever you want to them - more words - the bigger the vocab! It may or may not be true, but it can't hurt them!
DD has a TON of books...so we read one of those...DH doesn't like children's books per se (he thinks they are dumb and doesn't understand the point and think they won't stimulate her intellectually LOL, so I let him read to her from a book of Aesop's Fables (you know, with a moral to every story)...he likes those better.
It has only been in the past few weeks that she even seems to like being read to.
It's not like the baby can hear me yet...lol BUT I have been reading outloud. I find I pay more attention to the actual words of the story rather then just skimming through it.
Last week was Twilight and this week has been New Moon LOL
This kid is going to love horror, just like I do!
we read a lot with N. at first it was board books, and the same ones over and over... he has some of those memorized now. but he is very interested in trucks (garbage, dump, fire, etc) so I went to the library and got a bunch of paper books. He loves those, and he is great with them.
any kind of reading is good, imo.