Reading Mother Goose to Pre-Schoolers

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My sisters and I, decades ago, loved for Mommy to read to us from the orange books (by Childcraft), including Poems of Early Childhood. If you can get hold of a copy to read to your three-year-old or four-year-old, how fortunate! The old Childcraft books from the 1940’s and 1950’s are not easy to find now.

Childrens' Mother Goose nursery rhyme

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet,

Eating of curds and whey;

There came a great spider,

And sat down beside her,

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn;

The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.

Where’s the little boy that looks after the sheep?

He’s under the haystack, fast asleep.

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Reading to Children

When a pre-schooler sits on the lap of a parent and hears an interesting story for children, that child notices that the parent is reading. The child may not understand anything about how letters form words and words form stories, but there’s no doubt about a connection.

Child Care Resources in California

For short-term child care help, babysitting may be preferred, in some cases; but the average hourly rate for family child care is much lower than that of a truly professional babysitter.

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