Ana... oy.

[conuly]

If you let her, she'll con you into reading to her. DO NOT LET HER DO THIS.

Do you know what her bedtime reading list was tonight? 12 books long. That's what. And one of those books was Harold and the Purple Crayon, which is quite long for her. I'm starting to worry if reading to her was the good idea I had originally thought it to be...

Incidentally, she now knows how to play Ring Around the Rosie (which has nothing to do with the plague, contrary to popular belief). It took a few false starts, because I'd say "All fall down" and tell her to sit, but usually when we tell her to sit she's being punished, so....

Edit: The full reading list for tonight was...

Green Hat, Blue Hat (Sandra Boynton, tonight's light reading)
One, Two, Three (also Sandra Boynton)
Hippos Go Berserk (ditto)
Pajama Time (and again)
The Going to Bed Book (last one by Boynton)
Harold and the Purple Crayon
One Duck Stuck
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
Guess How Much I Love You (another fairly lengthy book)
Good Night, Mr. Night
The Napping House
My Many Colored Days

AND she got tucked in with a book as well.

Edit again: I just checked up on her. She literally fell asleep with her book open and her nose inside.

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

It may be a PITA, but she'll probably grow up to be an avid reader. :)

[conuly]

Great. Then I'll have another book-thief to contend with.

[conuly]

My mom thinks she's actually ready for pre-reading now, though. You know, you point to the next word, and she says it (really because it's predictable and you've read the book 100 times, but it helps the connection to readingreading)

[leora.livejournal.com]

Neat :) Does she know her letters? It won't make the whole thing click, but I think it helps when you combine the two. I'm also a big fan of phonics systems for when she's older. I don't think anyone ever did prereading with me. People tried to teach me, but they taught me very badly and just made me frustrated and irritable. But my first grade teacher was great, and used a phonics method, and then I started picking it up quickly.

Although if you really want her to learn how to read a few words, I learned the word "lighter" much earlier, and all it took was me burning the top off my thumb one time. Hmmm, on second thought, I don't recommend that method. *G*

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

That's so great, though! :D

[ancarett]

Good on you for all that reading!

I'm so glad that my girls can both read for themselves now. Youngest has about forty books in bed with her (propped up against the wall) that she browses as she's falling asleep.

[conuly]

I used to sleep *on top of* all the books I could cram into my bed.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

If it's not about the Plague, then what is "Ring Around the Rosie" about?

[conuly]

Nothing. It's just a form of a play-dance that children used to play. If it means anything, it's about going around in a ring and (in the words of one early version) not being last and having to tell "who you love the best".

In fact, most early versions run very differently from the modern:

Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Hush! hush! hush! hush!
We're all tumbled down

or

Round the ring of roses,
Pots full of posies,
The one who stoops the last
Shall tell whom she loves the best.

or

Ring a ring a rosie,
A bottle full of posie,
All the girls in our town,
Ring for little Josie.

It wasn't in print at all until, at the earliest, the late 18th century - hard to believe it lasted 300 years after the end of the plague without once being recorded.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

12 books? i would never let Seth get away with that. Which would plainly be a "put sleep off for another 10 books" tactic. he gets 2 books, and then sleep. He knows, any time, no matter what i'm doing (barring cooking and eating), he can bring me a book, and we'll read, but at night, he knows better than to try to stay up another hour.

Especially knowing, with this new baby coming, i would never have time to reda him twelve books, when the other baby needs to eat, get burped, etc.

No way. Cute any other time of day, no where near allowable at night.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

and his books sure ain't short. His favorites right now are his Disney collection...Brother Bear, Pooh Bears, Finding Nemo, Toy story 1 and 2, etc...

[conuly]

Lizziey. I *chose* twelve books to read to her, because I took her out of the bath early.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Bwah! A kid after my own heart.

[leora.livejournal.com]

It may be a PITA, but she'll probably grow up to be an avid reader. :)

[conuly]

Great. Then I'll have another book-thief to contend with.

[conuly]

My mom thinks she's actually ready for pre-reading now, though. You know, you point to the next word, and she says it (really because it's predictable and you've read the book 100 times, but it helps the connection to readingreading)

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

That's so great, though! :D

[ancarett]

Good on you for all that reading!

I'm so glad that my girls can both read for themselves now. Youngest has about forty books in bed with her (propped up against the wall) that she browses as she's falling asleep.

[conuly]

I used to sleep *on top of* all the books I could cram into my bed.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

If it's not about the Plague, then what is "Ring Around the Rosie" about?

[conuly]

Nothing. It's just a form of a play-dance that children used to play. If it means anything, it's about going around in a ring and (in the words of one early version) not being last and having to tell "who you love the best".

In fact, most early versions run very differently from the modern:

Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Hush! hush! hush! hush!
We're all tumbled down

or

Round the ring of roses,
Pots full of posies,
The one who stoops the last
Shall tell whom she loves the best.

or

Ring a ring a rosie,
A bottle full of posie,
All the girls in our town,
Ring for little Josie.

It wasn't in print at all until, at the earliest, the late 18th century - hard to believe it lasted 300 years after the end of the plague without once being recorded.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

12 books? i would never let Seth get away with that. Which would plainly be a "put sleep off for another 10 books" tactic. he gets 2 books, and then sleep. He knows, any time, no matter what i'm doing (barring cooking and eating), he can bring me a book, and we'll read, but at night, he knows better than to try to stay up another hour.

Especially knowing, with this new baby coming, i would never have time to reda him twelve books, when the other baby needs to eat, get burped, etc.

No way. Cute any other time of day, no where near allowable at night.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

and his books sure ain't short. His favorites right now are his Disney collection...Brother Bear, Pooh Bears, Finding Nemo, Toy story 1 and 2, etc...

[conuly]

Lizziey. I *chose* twelve books to read to her, because I took her out of the bath early.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Bwah! A kid after my own heart.