At what age did you start..

I heard that its good to read to them even when they are tiny babies so I cant see any reason why she would think it is funny to read to Benjy now.

we started pretty early too - in fact its my husbands job to read bedtime stories.

Doesn't sound silly to me, its never too early, and gives you some good one on one time with Benjy at the end of the day, enjoy it.

We started reading to Matt when he was a couple of months old. He loves reading now & will often go & grab a book & sit there 'reading'. He gets a couple of stories each night before bed & it's really nice just to have that quiet time with him.

I don't necessarily read before bed, but at about 1 was when my girls started getting really interested in books. I don't see the problem! Briona even went through a stage where she'd get a book and come and 'plomp' down in your lap and that meant "please read this to me"

he may not totally understand whatyou are reading to him but I am sure he appreciates quiet time with mummy and finds your voice soothing...and it gets him used to different speech patterns etc.

A friend of mine told me that reading is important as it uses are much larger vocab than we do when speaking so you will be teaching him new words.

Andrew was about 1year old when DH started reading him a book at bed time. It is is routine for bedtime now and it works really well.

I was also told it is never too early to get children in to reading especially boys.

DH and I used to read to Kaleb while he was still a bump. Now we read to him at least 3 times a week but not always at bedtime. He loves having a book put in front of him and we've even got video footage showing him looking intently at a picture then turning head to other page.
Slightly OT I have told DH, who isn't really into reading (has dyslexia too) that I want him to try and always have a book on the go (even if he only reads a page a day) so that Kaleb gets a positive male role model with reading too (i.e. reading our own books as well as books to him).



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We do it every so often, it hasn't become part of the routine yet, as sometimes Ashlee would rather scoot around the floor after her bottle instead of sitting quietly and reading.

But on the occasion, we have got out Hairy Maclary and read her that and every so often when we're reading, she turns and looks at whoever's reading the book and smiles and laughs like she's enjoying it! I think it's great!!! Definitely feels like she's appreciating it when she does that.

I don't think one is too young

I think that its never to early to start reading to your children. I try to read to Zoe before bedtime, but she won't sit still.