Reading to baby

CassieW525 · January 2014

I'm a teacher so my poor child will be exposed to all sorts of educational material starting Uhhhm now!

LO has been able to hear since Tuesday so we are already behind! Plus I dropped and eff bomb in the car the other day! I've got some damage control to do!! LoL - does anyone read anything fun or play music for the baby yet?

BoraBoraBaby · January 2014

I've read a few books and DH is huge on playing classical music for baby. I also bought a baby Einstein aquarium that want to have playing by my belly to bring baby extra comfort after birth. You're fine, you are starting very early! I have a little bit of road rage so my vocabulary is also quite colorful, I am trying to tone it down but it's going to be challenging.

INmommy871278 · January 2014

My 17 month old brings me books to read to him so LO is also getting them just because LO can't run off. I'm not going out of my way to read to LO, and I didn't go out of my way to read to DS in the womb, but he loves his books and loves to "read" them.

1982Babies · January 2014

My baby is going to come out swearing like a sailor, if he/she is really listening.

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AutumnBonfire · January 2014

I didn't read to DS while I was pregnant with him, but we read to him every night before bed and before naps on weekends. So I guess this baby is getting the benefit of that. My language was pretty bad before DS and I never worried about his hearing it in the womb. I still slip up and curse every now and again around him now, but I'm getting better.

ghostof5letters · January 2014

TricksyPixie · January 2014

Has anyone seen Dexter? You know how Deb has a very inventive vocabulary?

I'm like that x2. And yet I still appear classy to the untrained eye. I tried to dial it down, but I was playing Super Mario Bros. Lost levels for fun, and uh... Rage. I have been reading to LO and I sing pretty much all day every day. I'm like a Disney princess... With a potty mouth.

earichar23 · January 2014

I haven't started reading to LO but s/he hears me lecture everyday so that's kinda similar right?

SuperTinkerham · January 2014

I talk to it when I'm by myself in the car. Sometimes I sing. I'm a terrible singer. I have no idea when this sharkbaby can hear me.

cakebatter27 · January 2014

I never shut up so this lo hears everything. My talking to the dogs drives DH crazy. And I'm sure I will have to clean up my vocabulary when he gets here. I also have a potty mouth.

[Deleted User] · January 2014

I guess baby gets secondhand reading exposure from when I read to DS. I did start reading to DS as young infant as part of his bedtime routine.

I've gone over 3 years without DS repeating the f-word so far so I'm not worried about this one coming out of the womb cussing at the nurses.

flmomof4 · January 2014

I read to DD everyday, so that'll have to work for new baby too. I wouldn't worry about cursing. It's not like baby will come out actually knowing anything you said to it.

michellexm · January 2014

I think I'll read every night once they're out of the womb, but I don't know how helpful it would be at this point in time...

Salsera29 · January 2014

Meh. I don't plan on curbing the cursing until LO is old enough to repeat it. I will definitely be reading and singing to him/her but not quite yet lol.

kmawb · January 2014

Well, DH and I read to our DD every night at bedtime and she usually wants me to sing her a song too so the baby can hear all of that. Plus DD loves to have "dance class" so there's lots of music at our house, not to mention that she is obsessed with the Frozen soundtrack!

ksuRN09 · January 2014

1982Babies said:
My baby is going to come out swearing like a sailor, if he/she is really listening.
)

Mine, too. DH and I were talking about this yesterday. Our baby's first word will probably be "fuck." As hilarious as that might be to us, I don't think the grandparents would think it was cute. We're definitely going to have to tone down the swearing, if we can...

unaveragejane · January 2014

DS is 19 months and for a while now has been repeating words that I didn't intentionally teach him, like bra. It's kind of funny, but it makes me a lot more aware of what I say and what he hears when the tv is on.

jrockwood · January 2014

I'm a teacher too, and I told my 3rd graders that the baby could hear them and me, so that they needed to be extra careful not to get crazy, because I did NOT want my baby to get used to a mama with a loud mean teacher voice

haha. I read out loud to my students, so LO is getting that benefit, and I will surely use it as an excuse to make more time for reading to my students.

I've also heard from teacher friends that their children were very sound sleepers as babies, probably due to the noisy classroom sounds they got used to in the womb.

DH and I plan on reading and playing music for LO at home too, but he/she is definitely getting lots of my voice from my work day. Maybe he/she will come out multiplying!

alyss0nl · January 2014

This LO gets exposed to the colorful world of middle school. Oh the joys of teaching while pregnant. DS used to love reading books and now I can barely get him to lay with me yo read.

Soon2BMrsN · January 2014

Man, I guess this baby just missed hearing all of Romeo and Juliet by a couple of weeks! I teach freshman English.

yurmom · January 2014

I didn't even read to DD regularly until after she was 1. She had no interest, I felt like I was just reading to myself. Now I read to her every night so I guess I'm inadvertently reading to LO #2. I'll let you know in 15 years who is smarter.

ghostof5letters · January 2014

dlsexton said:

I didn't even read to DD regularly until after she was 1. She had no interest, I felt like I was just reading to myself. Now I read to her every night so I guess I'm inadvertently reading to LO #2. I'll let you know in 15 years who is smarter.

Exactly!

I'm in technology sales, I figure this fetus hears enough about Apple computers that (by this reasoning) it should be born and immediately employed by the Genius Bar.

jensavicci · January 2014

I read bed time stories to my kids most days and the kids like to include baby. But I also listen to A LOT of music quite a few times a day. Of all kinds too. My kids already love music so I bet this LO will too. As for cursing lol yikes....thank goodness he/she won't be able to remember and repeat for a good long while.

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