Of course, the "very very" early stages of mankind do involve "testing the world if it's mouth-savvy". So it's quite normal that your "youngest eats books" in that literal sense. So go feed hir "sensitive literature". You can/will find books specially MADE for mouth-testing, as well as soft-touch books made for rather hard touching (read: clamp in two baby hands, resist to oppositely directed forces applied to it, resist both moist and dry friction)
And aside of these, you will --being a geek, no?-- take hir on your lap, holding another type of book "without reach but within sight" and pretend to "read" hir a story from it.
Slowly (s)he 's now making the link between a story, daddies lap, daddies voice, a shiny coloured book close by ...
And even the "miffy" will be appealing, though (s)he isn't really interested in the STORY or in the ADVENTUREs of Miffy. The parts of daddies lap and voice are much more important now, but the miffy-within-sight WILL help make the link. (so you don't need to sedate "the oldest" for the risk of miffy book being harmed by younger)
Where was that movie, with a little binocular-aquipped robot continuously searching for "inputinputinput" ? Little kids ARE like that: INPUT gives them a KICK, they LOVE it, and it needn't be FOOD INPUT always, every input is exciting.
(So keep them out of the reach of poison bottles ... better keep bottles out of kids reach: it's a very hard lesson to learn that one already bit the wrong apple ... sorry, wrong reference, but very LOTR like, not?) |
