Reading to relax?

[orriskitten]

Do many of you read to your LO to get them to relax? We have tried at different stages, but it does not relax her in the least. I'd we start to read it is almost instant giggles and squirming.

I wish we could make it a part of bed time, but it seems to set us a few steps back in the relaxing before bed grand scheme. Anyone conquer giggle fits with reading? We have tried different books with different tones, different levels of light in the room, sound machine in the background, bottle while reading and nothing seems to help.

For now reading time is play time, but I do hope we can make it a part of bed time.

Any advice would be appreciated!

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[dixeedeluxe]

For us, it turned out that "reading" is an activity. Edie likes to play with the books and "read" them. She never liked to be read to.

[kdrake8]

Jan 9, 2013 10:05:16 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

For us, it turned out that "reading" is an activity. Edie likes to play with the books and "read" them. She never liked to be read to.

Same for us!

[dixeedeluxe]

She does like to sleep WITH books, though. HAHA!

[AndyCohen]

Audrey just wants to eat the books so I spend the whole time fighting to keep it out of her mouth.

[mscatra]

Jan 9, 2013 10:21:10 GMT -5 AndyCohen said:

Audrey just wants to eat the books so I spend the whole time fighting to keep it out of her mouth.

Same here. For some reason my mom says she doesn't have this problem with her, though

[bebeetmoi]

Jan 9, 2013 10:21:10 GMT -5 AndyCohen said:

Audrey just wants to eat the books so I spend the whole time fighting to keep it out of her mouth.

Haha this for us too. She just wants to eat the books, not sit still and listen.