Reading at an Early Age.

 We always encourage reading; we make it fun and sometimes come up with games to read. One of our favorite games while on the go (walking or in the car), is “Word Spotting”, we just look for words in our path and then we say what it means (signs, or advertising posts, stickers on cars or buses, anything with a word). At the same time we introduce other things like colors, shape and/or counting, but we will talk about that in a latter post. Don't be afraid to read labels out loud at the store (who cares if someone thinks you are crazy, I'd be crazy in a heartbeat for my baby), little ones are as curious as they come, and their limitations are merely the reflection of what we did not let them do.

These day’s as we go to different places or stores, Kira starts to read signs all over the place or if we stop she will start reading labels, some that she has never seen before; sometimes it even starts to get in my nerves as we may not have much time, and I do have to get the shopping done, but in the end it is very rewording. Not so long ago as we walk down an isle in a grocery store, Kira was pointing and reading things and she most have caught the attentions of a couple that was amazed by what she was doing, they stopped us and ask “how old is she?” and then asked if we had shown her does specific signs before (which we had not), they could not believe there eyes, so we asked them to grab any item from the shelve to see if Kira would read it, sure enough Kira read the title and then did not want to continue beyond the name of the product (It was a proud moment) not sure if she maid us look bad by not wanting to read more but at least she read the product name.