Do you remember when your parents use to read to you as a child?
Do you remember when you first began to read for yourself?
Do you remember when you first began to read to your child?
Many parents wonder “When should I start reading to my child?” While the answer to this varies depending on what you read, a recent study confirms that reading to children early and often has immense benefits on a child’s brain. We polled Colorado Mountain Doulas for their favorite books and these were the results:
Sam MacArthur
“Guess How Much I love You, Snuggle Puppy, On The Day You Were Born for little kids. Snuggle Puppy is a great rhythmic story for little peeps.
For older kids, The Indian in the Cupboard, A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Giver and The Light in the Forest, to name a few.
The Giver was my favorite as a kid because it talks about this future Utopian society where everything is perfect and chosen for you. No pain, no danger, etc except for one job, the giver. The giver gets to know everything and uses his or her wisdom to keep society running smoothly… Or is supposed to. … I kinda like books.”
Amanda Stites
“Jackson likes Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, but he’s only 8.5 months old. My favs are, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Ferdinand.”
“We love Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems. It makes us giggle and Adelaide pretty much has it memorized.”
“My favorite as a child was Peter Spiers’ Rain. I love the Kevin Henkes books now- Owen, Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse, Wemberly Worried, etc.”
“My favorite books as a kid were The Poky Little Puppy and Courduroy the Bear. Aeden STILL loves Chrysanthemum! I’m not good with author’s names, so I didn’t even know Kevin Henkes had others.”
Ashley wrote her own blog post about favorite books. Visit her blog for her Top 5 Children’s Books While Potty Training.
A passion for helping families to make educated decisions about their families and their birth choices has lead Jenn to become a great source of information for many across the country. She has been educating families on their choices and guiding them to find their own voice in maternity care since 2002.
Jenn is a Pre-certified Labor and Postpartum Doula, ProDoula, previously certified with CAPPA. She is also a trained childbirth educator teaching childbirth preparation classes, and also creating her own PEPP TALK curriculum focusing on pre and early pregnancy.
Today Jenn is the Co-owner of Colorado Mountain Doulas LLC, providing the community with much needed education, local resources, sibling, postpartum, and labor Doula services.
When she is not guiding families through their birthing year, Jenn is living in Rural, CO with her husband, two children, and animals.