Do people really read to newborns/young babies?
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I started reading and playing with books when DD was about 3 / 4 months old. But not with the expectation that she would learn to read or even understand what we were doing. The books were another form of stimulation. She liked to look at the pictures, I talked her through the storyline, and she would touch and feel the pages (several of our early books were sensory / touch books). It was just another way to engage with her.
It wasn't until about 11 / 12 months that DD started to really enjoy being read to and was seemingly interested in the story (though who knows how much she really understood). Now at 2.5, DD loves to be read to and loves books - looking at them, holding them, telling me / DH about what's taking place on the page. Books are one of her favorite past times at this point. |
Anonymous
| Reading sing-songy, rhyming books to my kid as a newborn would put her to sleep like magic! |
Anonymous
| I remember trying because I felt guilty seeing pictures of friends reading to their infants. It was lame. Now at age 4, there's nothing he likes better than being read to. We picked it up again when it made sense, and it stuck. |
Anonymous
| My husband thought it was silly to read to DC as an infant, until he realized that it calmed down our son! By 12 months DS was bringing over book after book for us to read (and yes, he sat while we read). At 3, he is still in love with books and often "reads" on his own. |
Anonymous
| We read to our daughter from day 1 (she's now 6 months). Her dad reads her bedtime stories as part of her night ritual and I read newspaper articles to her throughout the day since I'm reading them anyway. |
Anonymous
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One of my kids would practically hyperventilate at 4mo whenever we pulled a certain couple books out; he loved them. Another one was never interested AT ALL until somewhere around 12-16 months.
If it makes your baby happy, keep doing it, and if it doesn't, then try again in a month or two. |
Anonymous
| We read to DD from birth. It doesn't take more then 3 minutes to read the kid a board book and its good for them. |
Anonymous
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I read my newborn whatever I was reading. She liked to listen to my voice, I liked being able to read my mystery novel.
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Anonymous
| I read the NYT style section to my infant, magazines, whatever book I was reading. We also listen to an obscene amount of NRP. The more words they hear as lils, the better. It doesn't matter if it's necessarily age appropriate. Now I have to read Spot (don't get me started on the alligator under the bed and the lion under the stairs) approximately 64 times a day, and I miss the days I could get away with the newspaper. |
Anonymous
| My board books took less than five minutes to read and 9 month still doesn't show much interest. I read maybe every other day for 4 month then daily as she grew older. |
Anonymous
| Nope not till age two. |
Anonymous
| We read to my son since the day he was born. He wan't necessarily sitting still on our laps, but I am positive there has not a day that has gone by in his life that he has not had a book read to him and he is over 3 now. It is as much a part of our day as eating. |
Anonymous
| My 11-month-old twins devour books. Literally. No, I don't read to them yet. But I talk to them a lot. |
Anonymous
Either your twins are due for a trip to the ER or you are due for a trip to the English tutor. |
Anonymous
Or you didn't get the joke. |