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Offline riuliani

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How to get 14 month old to read?
« on: August 11, 2007, 01:19:39 am »
I love reading.  My DS is young but he isn't interested in books.  He will pull them off the shelf and that is it.  The only time he will sit and "read" with me is while he is having his bedtime bottle.  But now we are weaning the bedtime bottle, so our only quiet reading time will be going out the window.

Any suggestions?
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Re: How to get 14 month old to read?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2007, 02:00:24 am »
I read to Mira before her bedtime routine. She knows now, I go "story time"? and she gets up on her little sofa and waits for me. I give her a variety of books, but she is most interested in books that involve flaps, tabs, and stuff she can touch. Books i THOUGHT she'd like she has absolutely no interest in! Just try it everyday. Also.... well, in our case, we have this counting book. And I ask her where the apples are (this is during nappy changing) and she flips and flips until she finds the apples and shows me, and gets so happy she found it!

Just keep at it, make it a daily thing with him and I'm sure he'll soon get interested in books. Oh, also books that have sounds....
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Re: How to get 14 month old to read?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2007, 04:20:18 am »
At 14 months my DS RIPPED books (AH THE HORROR)....so I bought dollar store books to let him handle...We "read" together by him holding the book and me making up a story completely unrelated to whatever my LO was holding....

At 28 months my DS is an AVID reader! He loves reading to his sister and to us at night and will listen to the same story over and over and over...you get the idea! again!

I agree with Ali...give it time...let him become accustomed to it...let him pick and make sure you are in a place that is good for him...I love sitting in the rocker reading to DS...He likes to lay on the floor...on our tummy's so he can kick his legs...so much for the bedtime snuggles (this is mommy whining lol)...It'll come! Keep trying! :)
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