TheBatsAndTheBees t1_itrqr0g wrote
My dad did the same thing when I was young. He would read a few pages each night before bed to me and my brother. Its one of my fondest memories of him and something i still remember now. Fast forward many years I'm now 30 and about 6 months pregnant and I already can't wait to be able to do the same when he gets old enough. I hope your daughter has as many fond memories of you reading it with her and I do with my dad!
Shaosil OP t1_itrs0fv wrote
Aw that's great! I hope so too.
circus_circuitry t1_itulwns wrote
Pick a couple of little books right now, and start reading them to your baby NOW! You'll be wonderfully awed by your child's attentiveness to those particular stories when they're born.
My kids are 15 months apart. The oldest spent several months in the NICU and at some point I took in a cd player & at night I played the first Jewel album of lullabies, on repeat. I did that to create an ambient sound that we could take home because the only ambient sounds he would have heard are the monitors and machines and people. It was a lifesaver. Fast forward to my second child being born & that same music was equally effective for settling her at bedtime having "heard" it all through her gestation. Same for the books we read over and over.
Reading to my kids is one of the things in motherhood that is purely good and joyful that I still love doing although they're 11 & 12 now so it's getting to be a thing I have to convince them is great!
bamako45 t1_iu210j4 wrote
Maybe one should play Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen (Ring Cycle - a series of, like, 4-6 great operas, performed, one after the other, on my 13 CD copy, I have the whole Ring Cycle (Die Walkure, Lohengrin, Gotterdammerung and, about 3 others). That would be a good way to give your infant some culture, even though the baby doesn’t know WTF “culture” means (or how to say it)! But it could set the stage for a possible, if this went the way one hoped, appreciation for music.
Boom_doggle t1_itu4fcz wrote
As is well known, the Hobbit was written from the stories that Tolkien told to his kids. The pacing of the story reflects that. While each chapter contributes in some way to the overall narrative of getting to (or in, or out) of the lonely mountain, the book is constantly filled with little climaxes for each chapter as each substory (or night's reading) comes to an end. Think the encounter with the trolls, or when they're capture by goblins etc.
kelryngrey t1_ituge5y wrote
This is the same thing my father did with my sister and I. I had heard all of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings before I started kindergarten. The rather southern teacher was terribly offended that I had been read such things.
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