Do you know, I am such a fantastic parent that I have been reading to my children since before they were concieved...

[Fillyjonk]

Just wanted to share that really

For this I took silver at the All-Internet Parenting Olympiad last year.

it was abit show offy

I think you'll find that's l' humoure, Goat.

Please don't tell me you're not fluent in 26 languages, like what my dd (3) is

but admittedly we are being v. mean

ah bella i was having 'un petit jolie' with my obvious mistake.

No I don't think the other thread was show offy, it was actually nice . I thought this was one as just a bit of humour, not piss taking of the other thread, iyswim....

Oh crikey, didn't realise there was an earlier thread.....

I thought this was just a reference to all those horrid showy offy parents we all meet.

No offence intended to anyone - except Goat: book of French grammar in the post to you!

oh dear bella I am laughing at the very thought of that

So I have just had to explain to the kids why I am laughing (I am "studying" and chemistry is not a laugh-a-minute subject)

And now they are rolling on the floor in hysterics.

Oh so much for reading to my ovaries

This one. Sorry for the mistake, but obviously my mother didn't read to her ovaries and now I find myself not fluent in the english language.

Joke is 'geste', Goat.

'Jolie' is beautiful, pretty, or some husband stealing actress.

Oops - I really am in hot water now, aren't I

the mistake in my last post.

I think you'll find that most men do read to their sperm, from their teenage years onwards. Although it may not be he classics, iyswim...

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No ,not the classics.

Just picture books

What on EARTH makes you think that this thread is linked to any other?

but actually, being serious, this whole competative reading thing does get my goat. It is the tone of faint suprise and shock at the great unwashed who possibly do not even read to their offspring...plus this idea that reading to your kids is the bee all and end all, the ultimate mark of the non-rubbish parent.

I think reading to your kids is promoted as being very important though, Fillyjonk. It's something that takes very little time to do but which has huge benefits. Where I live they do Bookstart packs, have guides on how to read to your child, and promote reading together in the local library and family centres/nurseries.

I don't think it's competitive at all to say that you read to your child. I've worked as a nursery nurse and seen the difference in children whose parents can't read to them - it really does have an effect.

... I am sensing some defensiveness here ... s'fine if you don't want to read to your ovaries/foetuses/babies/children. Not fine to take the piss out of those who do. It's innocent enough. And does wonders for spelling.

obviously reading to your children is wonderful but some of the statements on the other thread made me boak. but i do fully apologise for upsetting the innocent.

I think it is great and very important to read to children. But we can't take ourselves seriously all the time

It's okay Goat, you didn't upset me, but then having worked as a roving UN Ambassador during my pregnancies in order to expose my fetuses to as many cultures as possible, I'm pretty unflappable

anyway it is filly's thread it is all her fault.

That's true, but filly, as I have trained as a psychotherapist in order to ease my dc through life, I do understand that there is obviously a deeply embedded and painful experience in your past which causes you to take the p*ss out of things.

Keep going girl, that's what I say. Life's too short and humour too rare

Mine are too busy getting valuable 'screen time' for me to read to them, is that bad?