Children and Books
Baby and Books
By Virginia Lowe & Sophia Ton
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It’s delightful, and a game all adults play with small children and books. However I want to make a case for actually reading the words as well. All babies’ understood vocabulary is enormously larger than their spoken.
Long before they can say the words, they understand them. By reading the author’s words, you as a parent are behaving in an unorthodox way.
As well as the story there are new words, new sentence structures, new ideas. “Uff uff me, or my heart will break!” (Many parents who do not read the words of stories will say or sing nursery rhymes, of course).
She enjoyed the language for itself - an aesthetic pleasure, fostering love of language. How will they ever learn new words unless they meet them? There was no picture on the page, but he pointed firmly to the words and said “bir”. He seemed to know already where the words were.
At first you will have to use techniques to prevent the page turning in lumps – I found pointing to the picture as you read the words kept the little one focussed, and kept the page down too.
A second child may even join in listening to the long book being read to the older child, so be introduced to CS Lewis or JK Rowlings.
Moominland Midwinter (Tove Jansson) was the first non-episodic ‘chapter book’ read specifically for him. ‘It is one story right through the book.’ Don’t underestimate your children – read them the words as well as playing the labelling game.
Baby Memory Book
Preserving Those Precious Memories
New babies require a tremendous amount of time and energy.
Plan Ahead
The best plan of attack, especially if you are expecting your first baby, is to fill out the baby book before he is born.
Obviously you don’t know his birth weight or have those tiny footprints yet, but a significant portion of most baby books contain information seemingly unrelated to your little bundle of joy.
The Early Days
Hopefully, you will feel much more rested a week or two after baby’s arrival, and can start using his sleeping time as your work time.
Birth weight and length, birth certificates, wristbands and hospital photos are now ready to take their place of honor in the baby book.
The Rest of the Year
Descriptive emails should be printed out and shoved into the book as well as extra copies of your digital pictures.
Executive Summary by: Mashuri
check out my other guide on Children Books, Children’s Personalized books
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