As first time parents, my husband and I made a conscious choice to expose our son to books early on. We also try to not to let him look at the television for too long (tempting as it is). No, we are not anti-technology. In fact, my husband works for a video game company – his dream job ever since he played his first video game when he was seven years old. And one of our favorite past times is to watch our favorite shows together.
But we were both bookworms as kids. In a world full of smart phones, tablets and other gadgets, it’s easy to forget the magic books can have – especially on children. We would like to give our son that gift.
I am now a stay-at-home mom but I taught preschool for many years. I loved storytelling in the classroom and saw how it fed my students’ imaginations. I started collecting children’s book while I was still single in preparation for the time I could share them with my child. I’d like to think I saved my husband some money by buying books years ago. We continue to buy our son books and borrow from our community library.
This is a peek into our journey of TRYING to raise a bookworm. We are not sure it’s going to work. But so far, so good. Our son is ten months old and he seems to love books – looking at the pictures, listening to us read to him, turning the pages and even tasting the books (we’re giving him board books for now so he’s free to do as he pleases). When we’re out of the house and he starts to get fussy, we recite passages from his favorite books and he calms down and just listens. It’s like a switch.
Our little one seems to have an ear for good writing and an eye for good artwork. We’d like to share our family favorites.
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