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6 comments:
My child wanted to read the same book over and over again- it made me a little frustrated at times- is it okay to refuse to read a book to a child occasionally?
My child is playing with older children that use sometimes use insulting language, how do I explain that older kids sometimes say things that are not repeatable or not ok for us to say?
I was asked to look at the PAIIR blog when in a class today. While I like the idea of a forum, I think that it is not really user friendly. It is very hard to see where to post comments despite the instructions. Maybe a button around the word "Comment"? Also I like the term PAIIRenting Post vs blog. I think of a blog as someone else's ideas you read and move on. Where this seems like more of a forum? Maybe the terminology is keeping some users away. I applaud the idea and hope that these comments help.
In response to the older children that are using insulting language...I have encountered this with my children too. I just tell my children that in our house those words are inappropriate and we don't use them in our family despite what other famiies do. I would then model how an appropriate expression could be used instead. Food for thought...
Yes, the same book over and over can be tiring. At those times I might try to suggest other books that we could read. Perhaps it's "Mommy's Turn" to pick out a book and then the chid's turn after. That way you have a little variation for the parent and the child is happy too! :)
Reading with your child can be an enjoyable activity but occasionally your child may choose the same book over and over. Repetition of activities is developmentally appropriate but can be tiring to parents none the less. I remember dreading the evenings when my daughter walked into the room carrying a battered Care Bear book. I would try to suggest other titles but they were all rejected. What usually ended up happening (for my sanity) was me reading the book as quickly as possible. We didn’t go through any of the great reading rituals that Raelene wrote about when this book was in my hands. I just got to the back cover as fast as I could. It wasn’t enjoyable to my daughter or me. Eventually I found a few ideas that helped me.
Listed are some things that you can do to help increase your child’s story time range.
•Rotate books just like you rotate toys.
•Pull out 10 books and have your child choose their story time books from those.
•Limit the times you read that special book in a week.
•Keep the special book out for your child to read by themselves during quiet time.
•Go to the public library and bring home a few books that your child has chosen.
•Give each week/night a different theme, i.e., animals, nature, fairy tales.
•Bring the special book in the car for your child to experience again and again.
If your child has a very difficult time transitioning away from their special book try something new while reading. I started to sing the rhyming verses in my daughter’s Care Bear book and it made reading that book much more fun. One thing to keep in mind is that soon your child will move on to another fascination. Perhaps the next book will be one that you love. It happened to me and now my daughter is the one who tells me that we need to read something other than Kitten’s First Full Moon.
Diane H.
Diane is a PAIIR Parent Educator and frequent blogger. She is mom to a daughter, 5, and a frequent volunteer at her daughter’s Kindergarten classroom
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