Do you read to your baby?

[teraiin]

Bored again so another CLICKY poll it is.

(My phone always capitalizes CLICKY and I don't know why)

[k3am]

We read to DD. DS gets read to as a side effect. Right now he's getting a lot of Madeline and Doc McStuffins.

[kateisoptimistic]

i do, but not enough. he likes it when i do funny voices

[ellipses]

We do every day because we read to DS1 every day, and he seems very interested in it. However, when DS1 was this age, we hardly did and he seemed uninterested. I stressed about it as a FTM, but we read a lot once he was interested and he loves books and learned how to read at 4. I suspected he could read but wasn't sure how much was memorization, or recognizing letters and guessing, but a year ago we bought a new book and he read the whole thing on the first try.

[babycaps]

As a side effect from reading to Ds1. At this age we hardly read to DS1. Who is now obsessed with reading.

[Deleted]

I only read to her when she's willing to pay attention. There are two books that she'll stare at the whole way through, but one specifically that she really likes and almost always holds her attention. I don't read every day, but most days.

[westiemom]

I read every night before bed and a couple times during the day. She loves it!

[annarose]

We read good night moon before bed. I should probably have her look at books throughout the day but I forget. Do crinkle books count

[ellesea]

Sept 18, 2016 15:21:46 GMT -5 babycaps said:

As a side effect from reading to Ds1. At this age we hardly read to DS1. Who is now obsessed with reading.

+1

[emc]

I read to him a lot but not kids book. Maybe that's bad? I read him whatever I'm reading. Sometimes it's boring stuff like CPA news and sometimes it's suspense novels.

[Deleted]

Blake is currently reading to Ridley a book that is just vocabulary, but got distracted when it got to the clothes section and is now just ranting to her about gender stereotyping. Lol.

[mrssqueegy]

Sept 18, 2016 17:50:58 GMT -5 ellesea said:

Sept 18, 2016 15:21:46 GMT -5 babycaps said:

As a side effect from reading to Ds1. At this age we hardly read to DS1. Who is now obsessed with reading.

+1

+2

[starfishy]

She sits with us when we read to DS- who absolutely loves books. We do books before bed. Every once in awhile we read her own books for her.
I just ordered her some of those indestructible books so that she can chew on them.

[k3am]

Good night moon is probably one of my least favorite kids books. FFSC?

[snoris]

Yay! We read every day! When we do tummy time or floor play we just prop up books all around him. Sometimes we just turn the pages and he looks at pictures, sometimes we read the words. We also read together like you'd expect - kids books, grown up books, and we are working through the Harry Potter series. If I'm ever reading an article or book, I try and remember to just read out loud.

Anything is good for their language development bc reading books forces a greater variety of phrases, sentence structure, vocabulary, tone of voice, etc. My grad thesis was related to this topic. I could talk about it for days but I'll stop myself. I'm a child development fanatic. Don't mind me. I'm obsessed.

[aaemommy]

I read Cam 2 books almost every night before bed as part of bedtime routine. On the weekends we usually read more, with A.

[helloerrbody]

I read to him a few times per day. He is starting to show interest in the pictures.

[KirstenAlecia]

We do read to Isla. It can't be before bed though. Isla gets SUPER fussy around 6:30 and bedtime is approaching.

[fishbulb]

Sept 18, 2016 14:19:17 GMT -5 k3am said:

We read to DD. DS gets read to as a side effect. Right now he's getting a lot of Madeline and Doc McStuffins.

+1. I read to DS in bed while nursing or cuddling DD. She also gets to hear "Uptown Funk" most nights too.

[annarose]

Sept 18, 2016 19:36:30 GMT -5 k3am said:

Good night moon is probably one of my least favorite kids books. FFSC?

I have no idea why I like it lol I just do. Saying good night to everything is cute. I recently picked up Pout Pout Fish for DD1 - that's my new favorite to read to her.

[snoris]

Sept 19, 2016 18:00:49 GMT -5 annarose said:

Sept 18, 2016 19:36:30 GMT -5 k3am said:

Good night moon is probably one of my least favorite kids books. FFSC?

I have no idea why I like it lol I just do. Saying good night to everything is cute. I recently picked up Pout Pout Fish for DD1 - that's my new favorite to read to her.

dude. Pout Pout Fish is where it's at. We may have had this conversation before. I rap it, Fresh Prince style. My DC kids request it at least 3x/day and I'm not sick of it yet. I do have it memorized though. 'Deep in the water where the fish hang out...' ((jams))

[wanderingheart]

I guess I'm the odd one out. I've read to them before but it's definitely not a daily thing. Maybe once or twice a week? I just can't find the time to do it and we haven't been able to establish a bedtime routine with them being so different.

Case in point: it's midnight and B still hasn't fallen asleep yet.

[wanderingheart]

I totally call B pout pout fish whenever she's cranky.

[nerdykitten]

Sept 26, 2016 0:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingheart said:

I guess I'm the odd one out. I've read to them before but it's definitely not a daily thing. Maybe once or twice a week? I just can't find the time to do it and we haven't been able to establish a bedtime routine with them being so different.

Case in point: it's midnight and B still hasn't fallen asleep yet.

Usually they get at least one book a day in, but not always. It is way harder to make it happen with the multiple schedules and different developmental rates.

[nerdykitten]

My husband hates the Pout Pout Fish...his hatred has nothing to do with the actual story, just that he was getting something out of the closet and it knocked the book down onto his head.

[PAruby525]

So thankful for thise who did not read to their successful DS/DD1s lol i have seriously felt so bad that I don't read to her more, but she is really not interested when I try. She just ends up fussing so we quit!

[k3am]

DD didn't give a rat's ass about books or reading until she was closer to two. She now sleeps with books in her bed.

[Deleted]

Ridley was fussy and we read her entire library of books this afternoon. After reading them, I need to look at getting some longer books. Some of those are seriously like two sentences long spread over 7 pages and called a book. Super lame.

[k3am]

@led, eventually you will get to a point with your kid that you'll question just WHY they had to put SO MANY freaking words on a page. And pages.. WHY must there be so many!?!?!

[k3am]

Sept 26, 2016 19:34:40 GMT -5 @frenchtoast said:

Sept 26, 2016 17:50:33 GMT -5 k3am said:

@led , eventually you will get to a point with your kid that you'll question just WHY they had to put SO MANY freaking words on a page. And pages.. WHY must there be so many!?!?!

And you won't be able to skip a page when it's a really long book because they'll have the story memorized and realize what you were trying to do.

"Mama, but you forgo to say ______."

Dr Seuss books are pretty much the only books I can skip pages on because (a) they're nonsense and (b) she doesn't read them very frequently.