Jun
3
Reading, Books and Toddlers
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I received a unique parenting tip from Angie, regarding books for toddlers & young kids. She says:
“Everyone knows that reading to children is essential. Here is my unique parenting tip. Keep your children’s books in the toy chest. They will think of books as fun things to do, just like dolls and trucks. They’ll look at them more than if you have them on a shelf, separate from their other things. It didn’t matter if the pages got torn or if soda got spilled on them - they will think of them as a fun thing to do. I had a few family heirloom books though, ones that my grandmother had read to my mother, and I kept those on a high shelf and my children had to wash their hands and sit on the couch with me to read those. They need to also understand that books are to be treasured.”
My extra tip for parents in this regard:
I have always valued reading & have loved books from an early age. While I do believe books should be treasured,and I try to pass the love of books on to my son, Angie’s tip makes a lot of sense. I suggest buying children’s books from Amazon.com or you can shop at a Half-Priced-Books in your area to get GREAT deals on kid’s books. I’ve found classics in good shape there for a quarter to 99 cents. 
or even garage sales.
Then you can keep some cheap ones to play with and have the books on the shelf that kids learn to cherish & protect from”harm”. 
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Marilyn
Jun
2
Parenting Tips for Early Reading Skills
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Quick Tip: Toddler to Kindergarten
To help your child learn to read, from an early age, label things around your home. Example, write Door in big letters on the inside of their bedroom door. Write Chair across the back of their chair, etc. By the time your child is ready to start reading they will already know and recognize alot of words. This gives them a great head start. You can do this as they get older also and take their spelling words, and put them around the house. In this case, as they get older, their words aren’t always basic nouns, so you can’t really label thinds. However, just posting their speling words around, where they will see them will really help keep them fresh in your child’s mind, and learn them easily.