Before I begin...Ryne is now smiling from time to time!
There are MANY things that I hope Ryne will achieve/experience in his lifetime. First and foremost I want him to be happy and healthy. I would like for him to be well educated throughout his life, and well employed once he is an adult. Yes, I would like for him to be a world class athlete (or just an athlete for that matter), but that would just be icing on the cake; I honestly feel this way – Ryne could chose not to participate in athletics, and I would be fine with that. Although, hopefully he will at least choose to take an interest as a spectator of sports…
Anyways…I really hope that he becomes an avid reader. I love to read. Reading is enjoyable. Reading is relaxing. Reading is how you educate yourself. Reading is the sign of a life long learner. These days, life long learners are what we try to create in schools.
Prior to Ryne being born, I would read (usually) every night before going to bed for about half of an hour. I would (usually) finish about a book a month. I still read, it is just harder to find the time to read for long stretches of time.
I real
ize that I have many obligations as a parent while raising a child. Amongst the obligations, I feel obligated to model reading and I feel obligated to read to my child. I do read to Ryne, but I feel as though I should be reading to him more. It is hard to read to someone who is still too young to show too much reciprocal interest. However, he will sit and listen and stare at the pages if you catch him in the right mood; I LOVE to read to him when I can catch him in the right mood!
Ryne has a quite large book collection, considering he is still less than two months old. My favorite books to read to him are Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, and during Christmas season How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I can’t wait to steal a Griswold family tradition and begin reading The Night Before Christmas every Christmas Eve! I also enjoy reading the little cardboard books to him that contain facts about my favorite sports teams (it is NEVER too early to learn; Amy even usually learns a thing or two when I read these to Ryne).
Sometimes I will even read whatever it is that I am reading to Ryne. The fathering book that Amy gave me told me that babies liked to be read Sports Illustrated because of the colorful pictures (YES!) so I do that sometimes. On occasion, I will read him articles from the newspaper and the internet. When he was first born I was reading a book by John Wooden, and I read him the little anecdotes/life lessons that it contained.
Curr
ently, (and this is kind of funny, to me) I am reading a book about the greatest team that I’ve ever seen – the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. This was my favorite team ever (and during this particular year my favorite player was Dennis Rodman), I think that my family probably watched a majority of their 82 regular season plus playoff games! I regress, last night I read aloud a few of the chapters to Ryne. Unfortunately this is not a picture book, but I noticed that Ryne was staring intently at the cover. I kind of thought (hoped) that he was staring at the front cover as there is a collage of the different Bulls on that cover. However, it seemed he was staring at the back cover…a picture of Dennis Rodman…in drag. Oh well, I think it is kind of funny…but maybe I should stick with cardboard picture books.
Anyways…I really hope that he becomes an avid reader. I love to read. Reading is enjoyable. Reading is relaxing. Reading is how you educate yourself. Reading is the sign of a life long learner. These days, life long learners are what we try to create in schools.
Prior to Ryne being born, I would read (usually) every night before going to bed for about half of an hour. I would (usually) finish about a book a month. I still read, it is just harder to find the time to read for long stretches of time.
I real
ize that I have many obligations as a parent while raising a child. Amongst the obligations, I feel obligated to model reading and I feel obligated to read to my child. I do read to Ryne, but I feel as though I should be reading to him more. It is hard to read to someone who is still too young to show too much reciprocal interest. However, he will sit and listen and stare at the pages if you catch him in the right mood; I LOVE to read to him when I can catch him in the right mood!Ryne has a quite large book collection, considering he is still less than two months old. My favorite books to read to him are Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, and during Christmas season How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I can’t wait to steal a Griswold family tradition and begin reading The Night Before Christmas every Christmas Eve! I also enjoy reading the little cardboard books to him that contain facts about my favorite sports teams (it is NEVER too early to learn; Amy even usually learns a thing or two when I read these to Ryne).
Sometimes I will even read whatever it is that I am reading to Ryne. The fathering book that Amy gave me told me that babies liked to be read Sports Illustrated because of the colorful pictures (YES!) so I do that sometimes. On occasion, I will read him articles from the newspaper and the internet. When he was first born I was reading a book by John Wooden, and I read him the little anecdotes/life lessons that it contained.
Curr
ently, (and this is kind of funny, to me) I am reading a book about the greatest team that I’ve ever seen – the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. This was my favorite team ever (and during this particular year my favorite player was Dennis Rodman), I think that my family probably watched a majority of their 82 regular season plus playoff games! I regress, last night I read aloud a few of the chapters to Ryne. Unfortunately this is not a picture book, but I noticed that Ryne was staring intently at the cover. I kind of thought (hoped) that he was staring at the front cover as there is a collage of the different Bulls on that cover. However, it seemed he was staring at the back cover…a picture of Dennis Rodman…in drag. Oh well, I think it is kind of funny…but maybe I should stick with cardboard picture books.
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