Comments on: Keep Reading to Your Kids… http://porridgereport.com/2009/06/01/keep-reading-to-your-kids/ Serving news and commentary that matters to parents Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:14:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Danielle Leonard http://porridgereport.com/2009/06/01/keep-reading-to-your-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Danielle Leonard Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:52:33 +0000 http://porridgereport.com/?p=401#comment-125 Way to go, Kevin. I'm glad to hear you're doing that. It definitely pays off, and will teach Finn to appreciate the value of books, which are infinitely more useful to the mind that the TV and, ahem, video games (you've got a ways before you need to worry about that!) Way to go, Kevin. I’m glad to hear you’re doing that. It definitely pays off, and will teach Finn to appreciate the value of books, which are infinitely more useful to the mind that the TV and, ahem, video games (you’ve got a ways before you need to worry about that!)

]]> By: Kevin Bileski http://porridgereport.com/2009/06/01/keep-reading-to-your-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Kevin Bileski Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:01:08 +0000 http://porridgereport.com/?p=401#comment-124 Great article Danielle. My wife and I have been reading to Finn since almost day 1, and I can tell you it is paying off already. Finn has a vocabulary of over 40 words, and is only expected to be using up to 6 words by the end of this month. When he is tired, he sits down and picks out a book to peruse. I can't call it reading yet, but he definitely takes his time with every page, and points out the objects he knows the words for. His daycare ladies tell us he likes to go to the book shelf on his own, and open up a book to sit down to. He is leafing through the pages on his own, and I get the feeling he will enjoy reading for years to come. It sure pays off to start from the beginning, and it helps to teach them to relax when they are too young to sit on their own too. Great article Danielle.

My wife and I have been reading to Finn since almost day 1, and I can tell you it is paying off already. Finn has a vocabulary of over 40 words, and is only expected to be using up to 6 words by the end of this month. When he is tired, he sits down and picks out a book to peruse. I can’t call it reading yet, but he definitely takes his time with every page, and points out the objects he knows the words for. His daycare ladies tell us he likes to go to the book shelf on his own, and open up a book to sit down to. He is leafing through the pages on his own, and I get the feeling he will enjoy reading for years to come.
It sure pays off to start from the beginning, and it helps to teach them to relax when they are too young to sit on their own too.

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