Now my 8-month-old used to LOVE us reading to him, and he actually understands the instruction 'turn the page'. Recently however he's started to get really bored part way through me reading to him, even if I spice up the story by pointing out different things in the pictures, or doing actions that go with the words. TBH mostly what he wants to do now is just eat the books! Books are really important to me, both for pleasure and for work, and I think learning to appreciate and look after books is something that should be taught to all children. And so I'm just a bit upset that suddenly my son doesn't seem very interested in them when previously he was. Do you reckon this is just 'one of those phases' and in a few days or weeks he'll go all literary on me again? Is this something that's happened with you?
While on the subject, how do others of you encourage your babies to turn paper pages gently? Our son is fine turning the pages of cardboard books, but with proper paper pages he's quite destructive and we have to hold the books away from him so he can't grab at them, especially if they're library books!
While on the subject, how do others of you encourage your babies to turn paper pages gently? Our son is fine turning the pages of cardboard books, but with proper paper pages he's quite destructive and we have to hold the books away from him so he can't grab at them, especially if they're library books!