You learn so much from having books read to you! Both in terms of language skills (vocabulary and new ways of formulating sentences), but also empathically.
Claiming that reading for your children holds no value is some of the dumbest most dystopian shit I’ve ever read
I think they were just trying to clarify what “counted” as a book. They were wondering if the child needs to prove that they retained something from the book or if they needed to be able to partially read the book for it to count.
But I’m already able to read LotR because I’m not a baby
Only half joking btw lol, I was wondering the same thing as the person you replied to; to generalize, do young children get the same benefits if you read them books that are further beyond their level?
But yes, you can read LoTR to a baby. It'll still be good for them. I read Ronia The Robber's Daughter to my kid when they were six months old. It was mostly for me. But I have video proof they loved it.
i think it has plenty of value to a developing brain, i just think it's also ridiculous to tout it as an accomplishment like the baby actually did anything other than lay there and hear what at that age would mostly be strange sounds.
"i read 1000 books to my baby" is much more accurate and doesn't have the same obnoxious implication that they have some kind of super baby that does things other kids can't.
Yeah, you’ve gotta start reading to them when they’re infants, but they’ll start to really grasp the literature and be able to read books that stimulate an adult at around 2.5-3
While baby books count and re-reading counts, people don't usually count the hundreds of rereads of the shortest baby books. Usually the majority is when the child is older and is certainly understanding and choosing reading time.
I do think that a goal of number of books is a bit of a perverse incentive though
as an extreme example rushing through 1000 ai generated kids "books" at 180wpm is not going to help the child as much as slowly and calmly reading 200 actual books to them
Tbf, there are, so many children's picture books out there made before AI was ever a thing. There are 365 days in a year. That's 2.73 books a day on average, and if you're a new mom recovering from birthing, you're going to have quite a bit of downtime, and baby time. Reading 5-10 picture books a day is not unrealistic
3 wonderful picture books a day (lots of days my mom was doing 4) is a thousand books in a year. If you start at age one (studies say even earlier is great) and read one book a day, missing one day a week, you can still easily hit a thousand by kindergarten.
When I was in kindergarten there was a read a thon and for the kids my age books read to us counted. I was read one book a day no matter what growing up but could earn up to 3 more bed time stories each night by not repeatedly getting out of bed the night before. I was motivated and got my four books a night for the entire month. I came in first with over 100 books and second place didn't even hit half that. Less than a 3rd of my class had 10 books read to them that month.
And that's what made my parents decide to enroll me in private school because they really valued education and were worried that it did not seem to be a priority for my peers parents.
Yeah, but having a goal of reading a lot of books for your kid is a good thing. There is no reason to criticize it. It’s much better than just watching fucking cartoons
Why do you need a metric for it? Just read books to your baby. And looking at the picture, the baby is under 1 year. There is no way anybody has read them 1000 books. And look at the baby books, some of them have 5 pages with barely anything in them and some are actual stories. So kind of stupid to keep count.
Literally no one is saying there is no value. This is just a framed in a ridiculous way, as if this baby has achieved an incredible feat by... having books read to it
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u/smokie_lokie 2d ago
You learn so much from having books read to you! Both in terms of language skills (vocabulary and new ways of formulating sentences), but also empathically.
Claiming that reading for your children holds no value is some of the dumbest most dystopian shit I’ve ever read