Bookworm
20 08 2005Finn has a lovely collection of books which he has been polite about but not especially interested. We have read to him but probably not so much as we should have.
A couple of weeks back Finn and I did some reading for this video I was working on about reading to boys and he suddenly showed a greatly increased interest.
Since then his interest has only increased. When he gets out of his cot in the morning the first thing he does it sit down with a book. It is almost as if he has been eyeing them off from bed. Today we let him take a small book to bed for his midday sleep and when Nicky went to check on him at about three he was just sitting happily looking at his book.
This is all very exciting for all of us really. I personally read really late but it looks like Finn is tracking very well indeed.
Perhaps it’s time to accept that the Finn boy is pretty normal and that he obviously takes after him mum…
We had to buy some books at a market today as Dan’s ‘Dad and Mum’ are sick to death of the ones we brought on holiday with us. It is however, great to be greeted with ‘book’ in the morning and ‘book’ before bed and generally any other time. I too experienced many concerns about Dan not being interested in books … perhaps I should learn to be more patient.
Didn’t you decide that he already knows how to read?