LO just wants to flip the pages on books

[erikab922]

Now she's almost 1 I don't know where to post stuff! I can't read books to my LO any more - when I have her on my lap and I bring out a book, she just flips through the pages really quickly, like a page a second. Then when we get to the end she goes back to the beginning and starts again. When she's tired of that book she throws it on the floor, grabs another one and does the same thing. I can't read anything to her, she's totally uninterested, just wants to flip the pages.

Did your LO do this? If so, did they eventually stop and let you read and enjoy books together?

 

[ticking.clock]

Really?? You're worried about this?
What she is showing you is that she has learnt that books go from front to back and is capable of turning pages.... That's actually a good learning outcome

Honestly, don't worry about it, a lot of babies don't entertain books at all x

 

[erikab922]

Really?? You're worried about this?
What she is showing you is that she has learnt that books go from front to back and is capable of turning pages.... That's actually a good learning outcome

Honestly, don't worry about it, a lot of babies don't entertain books at all x

That's funny you say that, because my first thought was 'Cool, she can turn pages!' and somehow she knows when the book is right-side up from upside down (even if the pages are still turnable on the right.) Bedtime reading used to be a great wind-down from the day and now it's like a frenzy of page-turning and just riles her up! You know Animal from the Muppets with his drums? It's like that. So I'm even considering dropping the books from the bedtime routine for a couple of days and doing something more relaxing with her.

 

[missk1989]

I can't read books with my son as he just tries to rip the pages out so instead I sit next him holding the book and in front of me, facing him and read.( like how teachers read to kids at school).

 

[MrsPear]

Do you have lots of cardboard books? That's what I use at the moment. I also give her old magazines and even the phone book to satisfy her page turning and crunching cravings. If I read her a paper book I try to find something like a cuddly toy that we can pretend is the main character to distract her. But basically, I think like a pp said, it shows she is interested in what the book is and is trying to understand how to work it out. I also find that just making up stories myself (or remembering the easy books and poems etc) and reading them out loud to her with no book at all during quieter moments works as she is interested in my different tone of voice and the rhyming sounds without being distracted by the pages, and then simply looking at the pictures in a book so we can go at exactly her pace and it doesn't matter 'if' we flip back and forth works sometimes xx

Eta- I don't know why my phone always puts 'if' instead of just if. Ignore the speech marks.

 

[aliss]

Most babies don't care to actually 'read' books, not until 3-4ish

 

[BintUmmi]

My daughter does the same thing! She'll get a book then sit on my lap and as soon as I start reading she wants to turn all the pages and grunt at the pictures LOL.

 

[Button#]

Ashley started preferring board books at that age and ones with flaps or texture books. Maybe something interactive on the page will slow her down!

 

[robinator]

Lane is much better now at sitting and looking at pictures on pages, but she still definitely has her page-turning moments lol.

 

[MrsLMC]

My son loves turning pages too.

He is petrified of pop up books. He'll sCream in fear and run away. He has always done this since he was a dot.

 

[Lynzeigh]

Perfectly normal! My son is 14 months now and has been doing that since 1 month ago. He no longer is patient to sit and listen to story like before, now he insists on turning the pages constantly! And insists on having the book upsidedown instead of the right way up! I think it is just their way of being independent.

 

[fieryphoenix]

My son loves turning pages too.

He is petrified of pop up books. He'll sCream in fear and run away. He has always done this since he was a dot.

Lol poor little guy!

 

[Lynzeigh]

I tried singing the words of the book instead of just reading them, sometimes it slows his page turning moments down. For example he loves twinkle little star song, so I read his book in a twinkle star style lol. Seems to work a bit!

 

[jd83]

Perfectly normal, and its just a phase. They do eventually go back to wanting you to read it to them, but its good for them to be independent and try and do it themselves too. I wouldn't worry about it. When my older son would do that at that age, I would just tell a story while he was turning pages like crazy.

 

[Noelle610]

Mine does this too! I've found that getting her books that "do stuff" (like pop up, scratch and sniff, etc) really help.

She loves this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Gossie-Friends-Plays-Hide-Seek/dp/0547242964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364820635&sr=8-1&keywords=hide+and+seek+gossie

 

[SillyMoo1983]

My LO still won't let me read her a book! She's always grabbed it off me to turn the pages so I just let her now. As long as she is interested in them I'm happy

 

[Seity]

That's great. My son was really into turning the book pages at that age too. Then he learned the word 'that' and he'd turn pages and point to letters, objects, etc and ask 'that?" and I'd tell him what it was. He learned so much and once he was 2-2.5 was really into the stories again and soon had his favorites memorized. He loves getting a book and reading to me these days.

 

[bumpbear]

Reading books has always been a physical activity with my LO! She claps and cheers and turns pages. When she was younger, she'd fight to grab the book out of my hand to chew it or wrestle with it. Definitely not a wind down before bed activity for us!

 

[Siuan]

F is way more interested in eating books still! I wish she'd learn to turn pages like that. But since she prefers eating to "reading" we've not really done much of it with her yet.

 

[snowfia]

I wouldn't stop reading to her at bedtime just because of that..
My LO sometimes still does this but normally I have enough time to read the page haha.
But she did go a couple of weeks not bothered about the pictures or anything and just wanted to turn the pages. But it's just them learning, don't see anything wrong with it.