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[quote=Anonymous]Let me know if there are long posts on this already. I am desperately in need of tips for getting my 15 mo. old to sit still to read books.

We have a 3.5 yr. old who adores books -- by the time she was 15 mos., we had moved on from board books and she would sit still for 30-45 mins. We would do four pretty substantive books a night at that age, and now she is letting us read very long chapter books. But our younger daughter is unable to sit still for more than 30 seconds -- this is the case in any situation (playing with toys, singing songs, etc.), but what stresses us out the most that we can't read together. She loves pulling books off the shelves and flipping through them (mainly Baby Faces - ugh - and Baby's First Words), but she won't sit with just one, she moves on after 10-15 seconds to the next book. She HATES sitting in our lap and allowing us to read the words; she cries and screams bloody mary until we release her and let her walk around.

I feel like we have tried everything: pre-reading calming techniques (bath, massage, lotion), reading when she is in her best mood during the day (i.e. not at bed time, but when she is happiest), holding her tightly while reading, reading the words over her shoulder as she sits with the books and flips through it, and finally the trick that all the websites recommend: reading aloud and with lots of expression while she wonders around the room, in the hopes that she will take interest in the books and the pictures and eventually come over to listen. But at this point we've been doing the fifth "trick" for six months and have zero indication that she is hearing us or taking any increased interest in the books we are reading. She seems completely oblivious.

We try to be as verbal as possible with her since she is not getting books, but I don't think it can replace the intimacy of reading time and the purposeful vocabulary, rhyming, and pre-literacy devices used in childrens books. I hate that she is missing out on this. [b]Does anyone have tips to help me get her to sit still and learn to love to read?[/b] Thanks DCUM.[/quote]

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