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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your child is 15 months old and you’ve been trying your fifth “trick” to get her to sit and listen for 6 months.[b] That means you were already trying to get her to sit and listen at 9 months.[/b] Your expectations are not realistic for every child. I have a dd who would lay in her crib, examining her fabric books as though she was reading them, when she was just 6 months old. I have another dd with ADHD who didn’t do that. She was always highly distractable. I just exposed her to lots of language and she paid attention when she was interested. She developed a very rich vocabulary, became a high level reader, and is gifted in verbal reasoning, but she still fidgets, likes to move around, and only listens when she’s interested. She has proven time and time again that you can’t tell whether she’s listening by watching her, because she can appear to be in her own little world when she’s actually hanging on your every word.

I’m not saying your dd has ADHD. What I’m trying to convey is that some kids just aren’t going to sit still and listen politely, but they’re still benefiting from being read to.[/quote]

This jumped out at me, too.  OP really needs to work on adjusting her expectations -- your second is not the same person as your first.  [/quote]

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