I’m blogging about learning and parenthood over at the LeapFrog Community in Get Schooled.

Here’s an excerpt from my latest post, Why Read to Babies?

Tonight I was reading “Good Night Moon” to my baby and he shut the book. I opened it, he shut it, open, shut, open, shut.  Giggles ensued.

Clearly, he was more interested in playing with the book than with reading it.

What’s the point of reading to a baby who is too young to understand?  He’s probably just going to chew on the book anyway, right?

With a baby, the object isn’t so much as to finish a story from beginning to end as it is to savor and enjoy reading.  Even before literacy, even before comprehension, babies get a lot from books…

Read the rest and comment at “Get Schooled”…