Born Reading by Jason Boog

Title: Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between

Author: Jason Boog

Publisher: Touchstone 2014

Genre: Nonfiction - Parenting, Education

Pages: 305

Rating: 2/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Nonfiction Adventure; Dewey Decimal

Born Reading provides step-by-step instructions on interactive reading and advice for developing your child’s interest in books from the time they are born. Boog has done the research, talked with the leading experts in child development, and worked with them to compile the “Born Reading Essential Books” lists, offering specific titles tailored to the interests and passions of kids from birth to age five. But reading can take many forms—print books as well as ebooks and apps—and Born Reading also includes tips on how to use technology the right way to help (not hinder) your child’s intellectual development. Parents will find advice on which educational apps best supplement their child’s development, when to start introducing digital reading to their child, and how to use tech to help create the readers of tomorrow.

This is why I don't read parenting books. I hate their tone! The holier-than-thou attitude will never appeal to me. The entire time I was reading this book, I had this image of the author just going "if you don't follow my exact instructions, your child will be an idiot." Ugh! I cannot stand that tone at all. If you can get past the tone, there were a few interesting tidbits of advice, but it was really hard to find. And so it will probably be another few years before I read another parenting book.