I'm a terrible Mommy

[gwywnnydd]

I have a confession to make.

I- I - Idon'treadtomychildeveryday.
[pause, wait for gasps of horror to fade]

My Bug views books as spitwads in an easily transportable form. I *cannot* convince him that books are to be looked at, not eaten. Even board books, will be chewed into little pieces and spit out.

How the *hell* am I going to raise a reader, if I can't get him to sit still long enough to hear 'Goodnight, Moon'?

Comments

You will hand him to Jay to do as Elric did.

[treebyleaf.livejournal.com]

For an extended period, Elric was the care-giver to a small boy who violently refused to sit still and handle paper or books but loved to watch high-action stories on the screen. Elric watched anime with him, loads of lovely, flashy, tantilizing anime-- in Japanese. With subtitles.

It worked. Andy became an active reader within a year.

Re: You will hand him to Jay to do as Elric did.

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

You are a genius.
I love you, more than I can possibly say.

So, when do you want to do 'Steel Magnolias'?

reading

[mothball-07.livejournal.com]

Elf's daughter is learning to read with Anime too...

Joy hated to sit still for books. I was worried. (Stone had adored them from very early.)

Suddenly, in the past few months, she's decided they're wonderful and she loves them. Now we read every night. I suspect she was just too "busy" to slow down for them until it started clicking that there was a connection between the story and the pages and she became interested in deciphering them.

It will come - if you have books everywhere and the bug sees you read, he will read too.

[lawst.livejournal.com]

Plastic books. But I do like the subtitle idea.

[vraptorz.livejournal.com]

He is still pretty young. I don't know what the development expectations are these days, but I know that the kids I used to babysit seemed most interested in being read to at about ages 3-6. Not to say it hurts to start early, but don't despair!