Do you read to your children???

Whn my daughter was younger I read to her before bedtime. She has so many books and her room is like a library. Sometimes during the day I would read to her when there is nothing to do.Now she is all grown and having her baby in October so I will be reading to him when he comes to visit.

i am don't read to my little one like i should. i read to her alot when she was a baby, but i know that now that she is almost three i should read to her more often. thanks tina for putting that idea back into my head. i am going to make sure that i read to my little one every nite from now on. i know that it is so important for me to do that. i love books so much and would love if she found that love of books as well.

I have always read to mine. The older three were all reading by or within the first few months of kindergarten. My oldest son didn't start school until he was six (today is his 9th b-day!) but he was reading for several months already. My youngest daughter started school when she was barely 5 but eevn she was reading by the end of October that year. My oldest daughter has a December birthday so she was almost 6 when she started school but she was starting to read the summer before school. My four year old is interested but isn't there yet. He mostly will just memorize the story which is a good start but makes it hard to tell what words he might be actually reading and what ones he just remembers are supposed to be there. I remember being read to alot. I don't know when I started reading on my own but I'm pretty sure I was unusually young at the time. My mom still tells about how when I was three I came down and asked her to come to my room and look at my ABC blocks. I had spelled out my name. I then proceeded to spell out everything else she asked me to.

I don't remember if I was read to. I read to my kids starting when they were old enough to lay by themselves. They would memorize the books, too. We would read 'Where The Wild Things Are' and do sound effects with it. They LOVED it! I think it helps give them a love of reading. I have one son that would camp out in the bathroom just so he could read in peace.

I read to my son all the time. He's 5, and he's memorized his favorite books. Yesterday on the way to the grocery store he recited Green Eggs and Ham, which was really cute. He loves to be read to, and I love doing it. He seems to have a genuine desire to learn to read. Even if he's not being read to or in the mood to be read to, he'll often flip through his books and study the pages intently.

I have 4year old son .We both enjoy our reading time.he cannot read it himself.I read books to him and its amazing the way he grabs the whole book.He always look forward to...............and he comes to know of so many new words.

I have read toi Skylar since he was in my tummy lol..i read whenever he asks which is maybe 5 or 6 times a day..then always before night..and i try and make it fun with sound effects and different voices...lol lol..he loves 3 little pigs..i become the wolf and pigs and knock on the walls..i act it out as much as i can,,lol..he giggles and giggles! hes 5 as well..just turned on June 24,and hes reading awesome as well..he has gone to school since he was 3..and hes always been ahead of his class ..last year they wanted to skip him..but i said no..he needs to be with kids his age now..maybe down the road..And yes i was read to as well when i was little..it was the best time of the day..which was night before bed.,,and yes it made me want to read earlier..and i did..:)

We often read to our children both 1 and 5 years old. They love books so much. Our son who is 5 loves books better than tv. We often go to the library. I read about 20 books a day to him throughout the day and in between he will go to his room and sometimes pick up a book and read it instead of playing with his toys. When I ask him what do you want for Christmas or his birthday he will say books.Our 1 year old wakes up at 7 am and sticks a book in my face while I am asleep and say read mommy.

I do not have any kids, but I will definately read to them when I get some =) I think it is an important thing to do - to get children interested to it. I started to read by myself before i turned 6.. small books but still my mom taught me before i started school just because I just wanted to learn so badly... =) Still today, I love reading and I do it as often as I can.

Most definantly, at least one book everyday, I started reading when I was pregnant too. and never stopped, the more you read the better even if they dont understand, they get to know sounds.

I read to my baby while she was still in my tummy. I also read to her when she was still a newborn and infant. Now that she is a toddler, I still read to her and she likes to read with me. She loves books. She learned how to speak at one and a half and I think it is because she is familiar with words already because I speak to her like an adult in complete sentences and I read to her a lot. I think my duahgter recognizes the words now at 1 year and 11 months because when she saw a neon sign that reads Lucille, she was trying to read it but ended up with her name, Lexi. Nice try but I'm happy she is trying and got the 1st letter correct. :)

I loved to read when I was little and still do.When I was younger my mom would take me to the library to get some books to check out to read.My son loves to read.I read to him and read to him before he goese to bed.As well as to my duaghter but she likes to turn the pages right now and look at pictures.

My mom always read to me. It was the highlight of the day. I started reading to my baby when he was still safe inside of me. What I would do is read aloud when I was pregnant. I read kids stories and other type of stories. Than when he was born I would hold him and read to him and as he got older I continued the practice. It not only helped us to bond but I believe he grew accustomed to the love of reading by me doing this.

I can't remember being read to when I was a kid. I've been reading to my 5 year old since she was a baby. By age 4, she was reading to me. She starts kindergarten this fall too. She was tested at reading at 2nd grade level already. All that was just from reading to her and keeping her interested in it.

No I wasn't read to But I learned to read from an early age and I always loved reading and I still do now. My Grandmother always bought me Books for Birthdays and Christmas and she would buy me a lot of books, as they where all Series ones I still love my reading now I used to read to my Children but not that often as they lost Interest after a while lol both of them are not readers lol

It is very important to read to children from the moment they are inside the womb. It has been proven to help them, and I want my child to enjoy reading as much as I do! It will help them become a more intelligent individual. Whenever I have kids I will read to them all the time.

This is strange, for some reason i am not getting all your posts and a few other friends. I may have to recheck the notify buttons. I read to my son all the time, pretty much every night and on occasion during the day. He loves me reading and especially if there are activities to go with the reading. He is starting to recognise a few words and gives up easily when he does not get it on the first go. He is such a perfectionist that if he doesn't get it write, he thinks he's no good! You know he tries so hard to get it right and I encourage him all the time and tell him its OK if he doesn't get it on the first go. Sometimes I wonder maybe its me and the way I am teaching him. I actually like it when he tells me the story by looking at the pictures and making it up as he goes. That a alot of fun. Last night we played "go fish" instead of reading, and the cards are alphabet cards with animal pictures. I had him say each letter our loud and the animal too. We had so much fun that we drew the first game and then he beat me the second time (I'm sure he was peeping at my cards LOL). By then it was getting late so we stopped and sat in bed talking about the different animals and so on. I enjoy it just as much as he does when he talks about the books and games we have just read or played. I don't remember at all being read to. I didn't particular read books when I was younger, but did when I started working. I love reading and my son does too.

my kids are 10 and 12 and they both love to read. in fact for my youngest childs birthday when i asked what she wanted she said she wanted the whole magic tree house series. that is like 100 books lol. when they were little i read to them every night and alot during the day too. i started reading to them when they were about 6 months old. they both love reading and always have. i think that is because they have always had books to read, play with, and i have read to them. when they were really small i bought them books that i kept in the living room that were nice and then i got old books, plastic books etc for there room. i let them play with them tear them, color them etc. yes i told them not to do those things but they never got in truoble just talked to . i never wanted them to think books were something that had to be done and that were broing etc. they use to build houses out of them lol. i started teaching them to read when they were about 3 years old. they have always loved it. they also see me read alot too i think that helps. that and my oldest likes harry potter, vc andrews etc and i read those too so we can talk about them and she loves that. my youngest reads magic tree house, nacy drew, blackstalion etc and i have read alot of those so we talk. i think that helps as well makes them feel big. lol

well i like to read books to children and specially strory books and they like it so much... i enjoy the same and i love to see their smile.. and effort to try to read with me..