Anonymous
Post 09/03/2024 10:21     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just put my two year old down for bed. Total reading time with him today: 2 hours and 51 minutes.

Of he 10+ books we read, his favorite is Six by Seuss, which we read cover to cover. It includes Seuss favorites such as Horton Hatches an Egg, The Lorax, and Yurtle the Turtle. He calmly sits in my lap, turns the pages for me, and completes many of the rhymes at the end of a paragraph. For example, after hearing: "On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day..." he completes it and says "in the cool of the pool...". After the final book, he asked for "one more story".

What gives?

(Is this what happens when you don't sedate your toddler with screens?)


He has a good memory, which is helpful when learning to read, but a reader he is not.

Will he be an early reader? Possibly, if you start teaching him the correspondences between letters and sounds. Lots of exposure to books and being read to will help him with cadence and knowing some words by sight, but the phonetic aspect of reading has to be taught explicitly. He might be a good fit for the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons. Give it a try and if it's too early, try again in a few months.


My daughter was doing what OP’s kid was doing. It didn’t mean a thing, other than the fact that she has a good memory. She’s dyslexic, so learning to read has been immensely painful for her.
Anonymous
Post 09/03/2024 10:19     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Stop engaging with this troll.
Anonymous
Post 09/03/2024 10:18     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
He has a good memory and is calm enough to sit. Also peobably the older child. My oldest was like that. My second was definitely not. Much more on the go and i had less time for her too.
Anonymous
Post 09/03/2024 10:15     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
What? Every single child does this. Every two year old. Mine recognizes letters. Have you met a kid before? What two year olds of educated parents watch screens all day? Literally none. Get over yourself.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 17:46     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 2 year old just finished War & Peace.


What a coincidence… My 2YO Larlo was JUST opining over his bowl of Cheerios how he found the Garnett translation of War and Peace to the Pevear-Volokhonsky. (He’s read them all, you know, including the original Russian)


Only 2 and already a better communicator than parent. Every parent's dream is to raise children who rise above. Congrats!
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 17:05     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:Just put my two year old down for bed. Total reading time with him today: 2 hours and 51 minutes.

Of he 10+ books we read, his favorite is Six by Seuss, which we read cover to cover. It includes Seuss favorites such as Horton Hatches an Egg, The Lorax, and Yurtle the Turtle. He calmly sits in my lap, turns the pages for me, and completes many of the rhymes at the end of a paragraph. For example, after hearing: "On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day..." he completes it and says "in the cool of the pool...". After the final book, he asked for "one more story".

What gives?

(Is this what happens when you don't sedate your toddler with screens?)


He has a good memory, which is helpful when learning to read, but a reader he is not.

Will he be an early reader? Possibly, if you start teaching him the correspondences between letters and sounds. Lots of exposure to books and being read to will help him with cadence and knowing some words by sight, but the phonetic aspect of reading has to be taught explicitly. He might be a good fit for the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons. Give it a try and if it's too early, try again in a few months.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 14:25     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My baby in my womb just defended a dissertation on particle physics.


This is nothing. Years before even being conceived, my daughter had already won not one but two Nobel prizes, in different categories.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 13:08     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:My baby in my womb just defended a dissertation on particle physics.


Impressive...... very nice.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 12:58     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
My baby in my womb just defended a dissertation on particle physics.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 11:33     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Wait til they start to analyze everything. You will love it when they don’t even know who Clifford Geertz is, but they want to talk to you about systems, culture, and symbols in Naked Mole Rat. Exciting dinner table conversations ahead for you.



Anonymous
Post 09/02/2024 11:07     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Pretty sure that I would not have made OP’s original post. That said, there is a range of visual memory skills, a separate range for auditory memory, and so on. Kids with strong visual memory who are exposed to Letters, Numbers, and Phonics early often can read at 3.5 years old. Other kids might take longer, due to lack of exposure or whatever. Normal has a wide range at these ages.
Anonymous
Post 09/01/2024 15:37     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:We allow our toddler limited screen time, but only for educational purposes like filing our family's tax return.

It's like montessori for future bureaucrats.


You win the thread
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2024 21:32     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
How do you know you had 2 hours and 51 minutes of X activity???
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2024 17:08     Subject: So is my tot just the best reader or are other parents just duds?
Anonymous wrote:My 2 year old just finished War & Peace.


What a coincidence… My 2YO Larlo was JUST opining over his bowl of Cheerios how he found the Garnett translation of War and Peace to the Pevear-Volokhonsky. (He’s read them all, you know, including the original Russian)