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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading an hour a day to a newborn... ok...[/quote]

NP here and I hope to God you are not a nanny.

Yes, we read to our newborn for over an hour a day - generally in fifteen minute increments.  Now an very verbal two-year-old, she loves books and can recognize any of the 200 books in her bookshelf and recite the title.  Reading from birth is one of the most important things a parent or caregiver can do for their child.  Google it.  The research is plentiful.  [/quote]

I'm a parent of a child who read at 3.5 and still reads hours a day.  Reading to your newborn an hour a day is very bizzare.[/quote]

NP here.  No, it is actually recommended. The more language a newborn hears - the better.  Just look it up.  [/quote]

And adult droning on reading from a book is not the kind of language and newborn needs. A newborn primarily needs language that is responsive and interactive. They are not learning words at this age, they are learning through the social connection of the call and response with their caregiver and they are learning the phonemes and adult droning on reading from a book is not the kind of language and newborn needs. A newborn primarily needs language that is responsive and interactive. They are not learning words at this age, they are learning through the social connection of the call and response with their caregiver and they are learning the phonemes  which make up the specific language they are hearing, which are best learned not through Shakespeare, but through the universal way of talking to Babies, which researchers sometimes call “mother-ese“ and which is usually derided as baby talk. [/quote]

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