I feel like starting over with my daughter. Doing things I never did with her before. I read to her when she was little but it was just so much easier to put in a Barney tape or one of the other 600 VHS tapes that she has for her to watch them. She was hyper all other times except when she was watching TV.
When she was 6 months old I got her a stereo for her room and started playing cassette tapes such as Barney, Sesame Street, and any other educational tapes I could find. I sang to her constantly and memorized every Barney song there was.
When she was a year old I got her own TV for her and started buying VHS tapes. By the time she was in 2nd grade she had over 500 movies and I was paying a fortune on insurance on them. In the end I think it hurt her more than it helped her. Sure she learned a lot from the movies since the majority of them were all Disney Movies but now she doesn't read. It is her worst subject. I have tried everything from getting her every Babysitters Club book to making her read one paragraph in a book and me reading the next. It has done no good. She hates reading.
The one thing I plan on doing is somehow teaching her what reading can do for you. Teaching her that you can get lost in a book and even though you may not be able to travel all over the world that reading a book will teach you about the world and make you feel like you are there.
I plan on taking her to the library and letting her pick out her own book to read every week. It doesn't have to be big books now. I will let her read what she feels comfortable reading but eventually I want her to read the classics. Books that were read during my childhood but not even thought about now.
If anyone that reads this has any insight into how to go about helping my daughter love to read then please comment.
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