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The key here is Don't Read Books You Don't Enjoy.
Peter: [reading a review of a boxing match in a hushed, storytelling way] The champ caught Smith with a savage left hook...
Michael: What are you reading her?
Peter: [responding to Michael in same tone] It doesn't matter what I read, it's the tone you use. She doesn't understand the words ...
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I think @deworde has the best advice to help motivate you to read stories. However, I wanted to add an answer that mentions options other than reading.
Until they are about six months old, babies will rely on tone of voice and sentence patterns to help learn to understand you.
The more you interact with them, the better they'll be able to learn how to ...
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If you want your child to understand language, you have to talk to your child. A study was done on the differing number of words per hour spoken to a child in low income, middle class, and professional families. The difference was startling. A low income child would hear 600 words per hour. A middle class child 1200. A professional class child 2100. A ...
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Even if you are speaking their native language children don't understand all of what is being understood, especially if they are very young. Children enjoy the act of listening and looking at the pictures, and being with their parent. Don't worry about the comprehension, that will come in time. Your motivation is simply the enjoyment of reading a story with ...
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Children who are independent, shy, introverted, or a combination of those things can sometimes be difficult for teachers to assess. My son was initially VERY introverted when we first enrolled him at his current school. He didn't play or interact with the other children much. It's taken almost 2 years, but he's a completely different kid now. Some of ...
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We had to send my son to daycare by the time he was 3 months old.
My wife got 4 weeks of maternity leave, and then used 4 weeks of vacation to extend it to two months.
I had saved up 4 weeks of vacation/personal time as well, so I took over staying home once my wife had to go back to work.
At 3 months, we started taking our son to a friend who was ...
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That depends a lot on the daycare and the age of the other kids.
Where I live (The Netherlands), maternity leave ends when the baby is 12 weeks old, and then they go to daycare, usually just 2-3 days a week at first. This means that the staff is experienced with babies of this age, and they are well cared for. There is also a rule that in the groups of tiny ...
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I agree with Ana - daycare is preferable (if you can afford it - I don't know if it has a cost where you live).
Putting the baby in daycare means the child will be cared for by trained professionals in a safe environment. It will relieve your father-in-law of a responsibility he might not want to accept, or might not be well suited for.
Daycare also means ...
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What's the spoken language policy at home? One parent-one language is a popular policy in Europe. India & Philippines are remarkable for the nonstop language switching and that system seems to work fine.
I'm working on teaching my son Russian (I'm also not a native speaker of Russian). We follow a one parent-one language policy, so I sometimes read the ...
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