Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge – Influence and Perception
The words for Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #132 are Influence and Perception, #Synonyms Only.
Love of Reading
I came back from a trip watching my granddaughter for eight days while my daughter and her hubby went on vacation. It was a wonderful time to watch her play and do new things every day. My daughter started reading to Autumn on day one coming back from the hospital. In the early days, Autumn’s play area and car seat always had books made with soft plastics or fabrics. When she could hold things, board books took place of the soft books. It made this Grandma happy to see her turning the pages.
When she was about 12 months old or even earlier, she recognized and could say “apple,” “ball,” “puppy” and a few other items in the books. When we read passed those pictures, she would turn the pages back to see the pictures and say the names. She loves to pick out the books with her favorite pictures and wanted us to read to her again and again.
My child development background confirms the children enjoy repetition because they love the familiar sights and sounds.
Autumn is 21 months and her vocabulary has grown fast. My daughter couldn’t keep track of the new words she gained and new things she learned to do. During my eight days of watching her, there was a book she wanted me to read to her over ten times. The title of the book is How Kind, about animals sharing with other animals. I also found her reading that book by herself. I think she enjoys sharing. Upon my daughter’s and her hubby’s return from vacation, during a snack time, my daughter gave Autumn some green beans in a bowl. She gave each piece to her Mommy, Daddy, and Grandma before she ate the rest of them.
Child’s love to read
Greatly impacted by adults
Her idea of books
Is no different than toys
Both are fun, enjoyable
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Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge – Influence and Perception
The Showers of Blessings 
what a sweet story!
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Thank you so much, Michele!
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The little girl is so cute, she is growing fast. Thank you for sharing the story, Miriam.
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You’re welcome, Amy! Yes, she is, and I’m glad to see her often!
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Aww so beautiful. Your granddaughter is so cute.
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Thank you, Bella. She loves to learn.
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Wow! She is all grown and cute too. Well done super grandma!
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Hi Aweni, good to see you. Thank you for reading and comment!!
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I was pleasantly wowed. Time does fly.
Ps.. Thank you for the follow back😉
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You’re welcome, I switched to premium plan and reformat my blog, I lost some follows. 🙂
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What a marvelous time you had with your precious grandbaby, Miriam. Your Tanka is spot on and touches my heart. ❤
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Thank you, Colleen, for reading it. She gave us so much joy!! ❤
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I loved watching my grands when they were babies. They are grown up now. Good times. ❤
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Yes, I know, Colleen. It’s so exciting to see them learning all the “first” things. ❤
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I remember. It was a real thrill. ❤
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Yes, it is. ❤
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Thank you for sharing your wonderful time you spent with your sweet granddaughter. A beautiful poem. 🙂
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Thank you, Amy. I had so much fun with her. I miss her every day. 🙂
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What a wonderfully endearing story and poem, Miriam! Thank you for sharing this!
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You’re welcome, Jonathan! Thank you for your comment!
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This is a gorgeous story, Miriam, and your poem is delightful. I love hearing about the interactions of children and books. I was interested to see that she likes books that match words and pictures. When my children were small and learning to talk, I made them scrapbooks of the words they could say, one word to a page, accompanied by a picture which I cut from a magazine. They loved reading the books with their special words and pictures they recognised. It was also a great record of their first words and developing language. Those books would be much easier to make now with technology and pictures readily available on the internet. Maybe Amber would like to do something like that for Autumn, if she hasn’t already. 🙂
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Thank you for the great idea. Norah! I’ll mention it to my daughter for sure. Right now Autumn can say a lot of sounds associate with objects even when she can’t say the names yet such as truck. She can say peep, peep that is at the end of the Little Blue Truck book. Making a scrap book like that would be a treasure to keep. She can say two words of two syllables such as Mommy jacket when they get ready to go outside. When she asked me to read books to her, she said book. She also can say read, so I told her to say ‘read book’ when asking me to read. She makes up sounds when turning pages to read alone.
I’m so happy for her. 🙂
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That gives me tingles, Miriam. Such joy it is in watching little ones develop. 🙂
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Yes, Norah. No better joy than seeing little ones learn and grow.
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This is so nice to know, Miriam and it is a pleasure to take care of them. Nice that she has started recognizing at a young age and she loves reading books. Such a cute little angel she looks.
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This is so beautiful and very true reading is wonderful and should always be encouraged in a child 💜💜 your granddaughter Autumn is beautiful.💜
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Thank you very much, Willow. We’re so happy that she loves reading so much. ❤ ❤
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Yes you are blessed 💜
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Autumn is so cute, Miriam, and I love her interest in books and reading. A beautiful poem too.
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Thank you, Robbie. For a while she was only interested in books. We now have to encourage her to do free play!!
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