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arohanui 
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 Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:13pm |
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I cry when they destroy books, and my bloody ferals can even destroy board books! |
I know what you mean - I saw some of my nieces books just all scrunched up and damaged in the bottom of their junk box, not cared for, I was so upset! Cos they're older, they should know better... I said to DH "I'm gonna teach our son that books are special and need to be respected" lol...
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Maya
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:15pm |
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I'm trying to teach the gremlins that, trying! Maya gets cross when they get her books too!
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arohanui
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:27pm |
Yeah I figured it'll be hard when he's still so lil and into everything! But when he's nearly 7 he should definitely understand 
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Posted: 26 March 2008 at 11:58pm |
I'm currently doing an early childhood literacy paper and one of my assignments is on reading so this is could good information.
I was brought up with reading and still love reading so my boys now get it from me and both get a story at night before bed. Andrew also loves sitting down with a few books and reading them.
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Posted: 27 March 2008 at 9:59am |
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We took all of Jacks paper books away from him and have just started bringing them back out so he doesn't ruin them. Hes started 'reading' to Caprece, its so cute just points out the things he can see or any words he can remember.
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Posted: 27 March 2008 at 1:12pm |
i read to james everynight he has his favs though so we tead to read them alot acctuly hes reading him self a book right now
and i, another book for present giver too 
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Posted: 27 March 2008 at 2:27pm |
It's definitely true about not worrying about boys sitting there and reading. They still take the language in and do pick up a lot more than you think. Boys are a lot more fidgety, you can notice it right through life, especially when they start school. I did a behaviour management paper all about boys not being able to sit still - oh, cushions help as boys are not meant to sit on the floor easily - their pelvises can't tilt that way properly. So give them a cushion which may help sitting there and reading with mum or dad. sorry, that so wasn't relevant, but oh well!
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arohanui
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Posted: 27 March 2008 at 2:42pm |
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Ooo I didn't know that about the boys pelvis thing... good to know, thanks Emz.
Yeah I had big issues with the 11 year old boys in my class being fidgety and not listening or concentrating for long periods of time. So I brought in regular 'brain breaks', where the whole class would go out for literally a 5 min run around game (or inside game of silent ball if it was raining) so they could get it out of their system. It worked really well, and the boys especially thrived (the girls loved it too though).
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Posted: 27 March 2008 at 3:13pm |
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I don't like Daniel destroying books either but he has one fav board book (the little red car) which I let him chew and do whatever with and it's the only one I let him do it with and he seems to have picked up that he can chew that one.
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Posted: 27 March 2008 at 3:35pm |
I think Andrew is pretty careful with books now. We were at Stacey's this afternoon (fixing nappies) and Andrew read about 12 books and was quite gentle with them. Josh on the other hand would be a monster with them at this stage.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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