While pregnant with my first child I read that reading to your kids is important. It doesn't matter what you read, just read. I started when my first child was weeks old and read every single night till about 3 years ago. They loved it, I loved it. It started with classics I should have read in HS but didn't, classics... The Scarlet letter was the first, then Of mice and men, Wuthering heights, the hobbit, the LOTR trilogy... as my oldest got older, His dark materials, Waterrship down, Narnia books, Lemony Snickets etc. We have great memories
Neither child likes to read. They read the books they're supposed to in school but nothing for pleasure. :/
I had a conversation with them last night about reading. My oldest gave a lot of arguments about it not being as horrible as I think it is. He had great points. He's an awesome kid; articulate, charming, talented, active and is enrolled in 90% college classes at 16... including auditioning and getting into a college jazz band.
I would never change the time I spent with them; the closeness we shared with reading, the stories we laughed and cried with, the inside jokes we had with characters, the bond it created... but it just goes to show that your children will be who they are, do what they do, despite your best efforts
One of my fondest memories of when I was very young was Dad reading me bedtime stories by authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, and he would assume the roles of the characters when they spoke in the text. I'm pretty sure it fostered my love of reading and acting.
Maybe they haven't found a topic that they really want to learn. When I was 16, I hated the library and reading in general. But then I developed a love for history and really enjoy reading various books on the subject. At one point, over the course of several months, I had checked out and read practically every book that the library had on the Roman Empire. I also checked out and read a large portion of their World War 2 selection as well. This wasn't a small library either, it was of decent size. They might develop a love for reading later on in life.
My son's wife read every day to my grandson. He is the most literate child in his school and carries adult conversations at 8. I am so proud.
this is proven to bring harmony in the foetus
My Daughter tested behind in verbal expression. She was able to go to a school program a year before kindergarten. I read to her every night until we divorced. She became an avid reader, and is excellent at verbal expression.
It often works that way. I have one son who is an avid reader like me, the other almost never reads. Both were read to from birth and had reading ages way beyond their actual years when they were at school....I canβt figure it!
There used to be a megaphone like device(Pregaphone) expectant mothers could place on their growing belly and talk to the unborn child,it supposedly soothed the fetus, and makes it aware of it's mothers voice.
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Can you imagine carrying this around? Is she smuggling beach balls under her blouse??