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Anyone else have a kid who is suddenly demanding to do the "reading" at bedtime? Ever since we started reading at bedtime like a year ago, T's nursed and interacted a little with the book while I read. For the past few weeks, she's been ripping the book out of my hands so she can "read" it while I just sit there. Cute but B.O.R.I.N.G.
How does story time go in your house?
HAHAHAH that's a pretty good complaint if you have to have one. Adair still lets us read and demands more books until we have to cut her off, but she does have a lot to say about each page!
we don't really get one here! if i try to sit with him in a rocking chair he wants down. if i sit on the couch with him he will look, but after a minute wants to turn the pages or runs away. he loves books, but he likes looking at them by himself.
We read DS one book before nap or bedtime (we try to make it a longer one) and then he can "read" all he wants after that. Once again last night he got up out of bed after DH left, turned on his light, and read books for an hour before climbing back in bed and going to sleep. lol. If only he was this calm for nap times. He'd rather scream and pound of the door than read books to himself for longer than 10 minutes.
ETA: At 3am I woke up to babbling and noticed the light was on in his room. Heard books being tossed to the floor and 20 minutes later nothing but silence. Apparently he needed some middle of the night reading. :lol:
That's awesome Jackie! :)
Depends on the night for us. Sometimes DD and DS want to read the book themselves and sometimes they want us to read. DS pretty much asks questions the entire book which drives DH bonkers but I like it! :)
:ROFL: I would die of happiness if Addy would do that in the middle of the night instead of screaming! Although she slept completely through last night, so that's preferable to anything ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by alwayssmile
She asks questions sometimes, but she's more into COMMENTING...like we were reading Dr. Seuss's ABC book the other night, and she was very interested in the "Icabod is itchy/so am I" characters, so we talked about them for a minute. Then whenever she saw them on another page doing something else, she'd interrupt me to point and shout "Look! Not itchy more! What they doing? Not itchy!" It's pretty cute.
Ditto this! We do some story time during the day, but after a few seconds she always grabs the book and just flips back and forth through it. She can't sit still long enough for me to read even one page of a Dr. Seuss.Quote:
Originally Posted by janijanis
You know, this reminds me...my SIL said each of her three kids was very different in this department. Her oldest was happy to be read to, but the middle girl would be bouncing around the room seemingly paying no attention as she read stories. But at some point, she realized that she actually HAD been paying attention, because she knew ALL the words and could recite most of the books they'd been reading. She was just too kinetic to sit still to do her listening. It was somewhat the same with the third, although she was a read-it-myself type. But she'd be sitting nearby "reading" one book but actually taking in the story being read aloud.
So even if it doesn't seem like they're paying attention, they might be picking up more than you realize!
I agree with Leigh. Keep reading even if they don't sit. Ethan couldn't sit until he was over 2 years old but he already knew the plots/some words for the ones we read the most because he did take it in even though he didn't look like he was.
that's a good point thanks :)