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RE: How To Cultivate A Lifelong Love In Your Kids
I am 100% with you on this - I loved books from a very very early age - my parents read to me, so when I had children it was a natural progression to read to them . I now have teenage daughters, one who is not really into book , whilst the other one is an avid reader of all things Potter and other genre and is a writer of her own books and wants to be an author - I smile smugly as this warms my heart that she has my gene in her to want to read books.
Not sure by your post if your son is still young? if he is try the Room on the Broom book and others by Julia Donaldson - and the Gruffalo - this was a 3-6 month everynight read for both girls. :)
Thank you so much for your comment @ladypenelope1. Thats how it went with my own childhood as well, my fathers living room was walled on 3 sides with floor to ceiling books and it became a love of both reading and writing for me. My son is almost 6 now and does enjoy reading more and more, especially since this has been his first year at school, in prep, and he has been learning to read. We have loved many of Julie Donaldsons books over the years, The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, have you read this one, its excellent, and now he enjoys trying to read them himself. We actually used Caterpillar Spring as his 'reader' tonight and I found using the easy to read books he loved as a baby a great way to get him to do his reader as well. I think I'll do another post about that at some point.
we lived on the Gruffalo for 6 moths - night after night - even acting it out! then came 'We are going on a Bear Hunt' - that not only took over night times, its one we acted out when out walking. Even today with my girls at 17 and 14, when out walking and we have to cross a style or bridge etc - they sing out - 'we can't get over it, we can't go under it, OH NO MUM! - we will have to go throught it....lol happy memories :)