I have no idea if this would work for any other kid, but, for my voracious reader, we didn't push at all. She spent a very long time devouring dozens of picture books every day, even long after I thought she could read chapter books. Eventually she got hold of a very interesting, very easy, chapter book that happened to be the start of a long series. She devoured that, and went right ahead through the whole series. Today she's happy to gobble down a mixture of chapter books and picture books -- she loves reading anything and everything.
But each kid is different, so I don't know that what was interesting for Kendra would be interesting for Cordelia.
Oh! Kendra donated most of her board books to her baby brother, but picked quite a number of favorites that she wanted to keep in her own room. I was very startled, since I'd been thinking of those books at the family's property, not her personal books. Plus I don't think she reads them anymore. They had belonged to her older brother before her, so I was assuming that we would just transfer them to the baby. But I'm okay with some board books staying in Kendra's room for now; baby Corbin at this point is only interested in some very limited books; he doesn't miss the ones that she kept, and she'll outgrow them eventually.
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Date: 2008-12-03 03:31 am (UTC)But each kid is different, so I don't know that what was interesting for Kendra would be interesting for Cordelia.
Oh! Kendra donated most of her board books to her baby brother, but picked quite a number of favorites that she wanted to keep in her own room. I was very startled, since I'd been thinking of those books at the family's property, not her personal books. Plus I don't think she reads them anymore. They had belonged to her older brother before her, so I was assuming that we would just transfer them to the baby. But I'm okay with some board books staying in Kendra's room for now; baby Corbin at this point is only interested in some very limited books; he doesn't miss the ones that she kept, and she'll outgrow them eventually.