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littlejacksons:

Noah’s Nooks Pt I

Over the next few weeks I thought I’d do a few posts on activities that we do together and also incorporate photos of his little spaces that I set up around the house for him.

This is his reading tent.

Inside are his ‘hands on’ books. He has another set of books in his room that I read to him at bedtime that are not baby friendly to play with. Torn pages hurt my brain. Like many other mothers, I have a passionate desire for teaching my son to love literature and words.

We read together a lot, and Joe reads to him too. Noah loves it when Daddy reads, a little more so than Mummy! It might not always be books, we use every opportunity given as a readable moment. In shops, while cooking, everywhere there are words we are reading and showing them to Noah.

We set this little tent up for him to sit in and rifle through his book collection in peace and free of distraction. At first he wasn’t interested in his space but when left to his own devices, he ventured in and found all of his books inside and began to open the pages and yell at them. We always find him sitting in there now ‘reading’ to himself and pointing at the pages babbling away. It’s the foundation of something really special and I catch myself just peeking in and watching with a big happy smile.

Often enough the books come out and end up everywhere but that is ok, they get packed away at the end of each day ready for him to rediscover tomorrow.

I hope that he falls in love with being transported away in a world of paper and adventure, it’s one of the very best traits to be passed on, a love of reading.