Sure, you can read the TV Guide to your child. Like the little yobbo is going to understand Chaucer?
As a grade schooler, I used to read the back of shampoo bottles above the ingredients out loud like a commercial, because that’s how they were written. I’d do it in the bathroom for the acoustics (i.e., the echo) so I could hear myself. My aunt heard me do that when we were visiting and got a kick out of it, and I told her I was practicing to be a radio announcer when I grew up. Which I did.
Moral of the Story: It doesn’t matter what you read (or have read to you) as a kid as long as you’re learning words and how they work with each other.
I must have done it all wrong as I read books from at least from age six. Not kids books but my fathers books. ‘The Cruel Sea’ stopped me. The only others to stop me were ‘Andersonville’ and ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ when I was a teenager.
Guilty Bystander almost 3 years ago
Sure, you can read the TV Guide to your child. Like the little yobbo is going to understand Chaucer?
As a grade schooler, I used to read the back of shampoo bottles above the ingredients out loud like a commercial, because that’s how they were written. I’d do it in the bathroom for the acoustics (i.e., the echo) so I could hear myself. My aunt heard me do that when we were visiting and got a kick out of it, and I told her I was practicing to be a radio announcer when I grew up. Which I did.
Moral of the Story: It doesn’t matter what you read (or have read to you) as a kid as long as you’re learning words and how they work with each other.
Kaputnik almost 3 years ago
I’m glad my father read to me, Winnie the Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, The Hobbit.
He never read the TV Guide to me, but then, we didn’t have a TV until I was in my teens. Probably just as well.
Its just me almost 3 years ago
I must have done it all wrong as I read books from at least from age six. Not kids books but my fathers books. ‘The Cruel Sea’ stopped me. The only others to stop me were ‘Andersonville’ and ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ when I was a teenager.
e.groves almost 3 years ago
Reading to my kids was one of my favorite things to do.