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Emily P.
Mom, Oxford, OH
Preconception, Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler, Preschool, K-5th Grade
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I completly agree on choosing good books your kids will learn from, a couple of things we do similarly is we find books that have movies. We have our 8 year old read the book, then we make it a big deal to watch the movie after we've read the book. Often times our son has said, "what happened to....." and "they forgot..." I love that he remembers, and he really loves reading the books before watching the movies. We also read the same books over and over again to our kids, letting them finish the sentences, and understand the ends of the sentence. A good one we've done with all 3 is, "Good night___" and then "and a bowl of ____" they love remembering and being able to identify what comes next. I also have my kids "read" the book to me, looking at the pictures describing what they think happened next, and then reading it to them, and finding out how accurate they were with their depictions of each page. We LOVE picture books. We haven't read Junie B Jones yet, but our 8 year old loved the Captain Underpants books. And the books about body parts. My 8 year old is VERY interested in my Human Anatomy and Physiology book. I am a little leery of certain pages, but its all about the body, and I feel once he's seen photos of naked people, and askes questions, it will desensitize him for later in his life. Maybe he's too young, but each child is different. We took him to Bodies Exhibit about 10 times. He loved seeing all the creepy parts of the body, and was especially intrigued by the person who was made up of only veins and capillaries.
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