{"id":528,"date":"2008-02-27T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T01:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/2008\/02\/27\/she-likes-books\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T20:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T01:32:59","slug":"she-likes-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"She likes books."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From very early on, I have tried to make books a huge part of Jaia&#8217;s life.\u00a0 Both Dan and I love to read (though I admit to doing far less reading than him over the past couple of years) and I firmly believe that teaching a kid the importance of reading could foster a love a reading early on.\u00a0 My idea of teaching Jaia\u00a0the importance of reading was to wrangle her and try to have her pay attention to at least one page of the book if not more.\u00a0 It also involved buying her all of my all-time favourite books, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/books\/Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-Sendak\/9780064431781-item.html\"><em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/books\/Alligator-Pie-Dennis-Lee-Frank-Newfeld\/9781552633380-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+%2527alligator+pie%2527\"><em>Alligator Pie<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from my childhood, and new favoutires including <a href=\"http:\/\/editoon.com\/sandbox\/?p=733\"><em>Freckleface Strawberry<\/em><\/a> (which I wish I would have had as a child) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.ca\/titles\/iloveyoustinkyface\/\"><em>I Love You, Stinkyface<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My plan backfired at first.\u00a0 She wanted nothing to do with books.\u00a0\u00a0Nada.\u00a0 Zip.\u00a0 Most attempts to read to her ended with her\u00a0pushing the book away or throwing\u00a0it down and crawling over or stepping on it as she went in the other direction towards the toy of choice that day.\u00a0 I thought we\u00a0were doomed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_2147sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_2147sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1600\" alt=\"dsc_2147sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_2147sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, my persistence paid off.\u00a0 Maybe too well.\u00a0\u00a0Jaia&#8217;s new found fascination with books has come on like a fury.\u00a0 She is driving me crazy.\u00a0 At every turn, all day long, she&#8217;s carrying over another book for me to read to her, one that I&#8217;ve likely already read\u00a0to her 42 times that day.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, since I&#8217;ve been typing this post she&#8217;s brought me 6 books and one shoe (?), and I&#8217;ve read each one at least twice.\u00a0 She seems to want nothing to do with the other toys now and only carries around books, forcing them on daddy, mama and guests alike, though we all happpily oblige.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_2316sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_2316sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1601\" alt=\"dsc_2316sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_2316sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that this does not guarantee a lifelong love of reading, but it&#8217;s definitely looking more promising than it was a few months ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s lovely to see.\u00a0 And as annoying as it can be some days, I wouldn&#8217;t trade it for anything.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s currently an avid &#8216;reader&#8217;, even if it is just of the same five or six books over and over (and over and over and over and over).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_2426sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_2426sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1602\" alt=\"dsc_2426sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_2426sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From very early on, I have tried to make books a huge part of Jaia&#8217;s life.\u00a0 Both Dan and I love to read (though I admit to doing far less reading than him over the past couple of years) and I firmly believe that teaching a kid the importance of reading could foster a love 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