how do you read to your twins?

it's obviously difficult to pick up two kids, plop them on your lap and read to them. how do you ladies read to your LO's?

 

I did put both kids on my lap at times or I propped them up next to me & I sat in the middle.

 

I usually read to them while they are playing and most of the time they come sit next to me and listen (they really LOVE books). At bedtime, I hold one on my lap while DH holds the other and one of us will read them their goodnight story.

 

We're read to ours several ways!

You could put them in your lap
you could have them in boppies or bouncy chairs and read to them like you are a librarian.
Once they got older we also read them "bath tub" books- ones they could get wet in the water. I would sit in the bathroom and read while they played and watched.
As they neared a year and you had a regular night time routine, a great idea we took from mamabee718 was reading to them while they sat in their cribs. Now that they are in toddler beds I still let them climb in thier beds and I sit down and read to them (like im a librarian).
One on one- a book for each is nice too!

Whatever you can come up with

 

I sit on the floor and lean on their dresser and they both sit in between my legs.

 

When they were younger I would have them laying on their boppies or swings and would read to them that way. If DH was around, he would hold one and I would hold the other and we'd read to them like that. Now that they are older, I sit on the couch, they sit beside me and we read.

 

Me too! I had a boppy pillow to use or pillows and I also sat them in my lap! I don't think it matters "how" you read to them just that you are reading to them! My boys LOVE books now and love to read.

 

I don't necessarily read to them together. if one of my sons is asleep, I pick up my other son on my lap and read to him. also when they are both in our bed I read to them together...just whenever I find it convenient.

 

Usually with one hand, the other is trying to wrangle 2 babies who are crawling/rolling away! :lol:

 

I do just that. Put them both in my lap, one on each knee and read. It gets much easier as they get older too.

 

My boys LOVE it when we read to them, we try to read to them everyday before bed, either one sits on each of our laps or if it's just one of us doing the reading while the other parent is not around, the boys sit next to us on the couch or on the floor, they are really good about sitting and listening, most times they want to touch the books or turn the pages which is perfectly fine, they are learning and feeling...

 

My MOMs group had their monthly dinner last week and come to find out several of the moms started reading to their LOs when they were really young, like 1 or 2 months old. Up until now we had just been talking a lot to the boys, but not trying to read them books. Well after that I felt like I was being a bad mom and had to start reading to them pronto so I ordered like 10 books from Amazon, LOL. And I tried reading to them a few times this week, either one baby at a time or both, but they have NO interest in that piece of cardboard in my hands. Either they started fussing/crying right away, or they just stared at me (and never the books) and started fussing within a minute or two, as if they were bored. I know its important to read to babies while they are young, but I just don't know that my babies have the attention span for a book just yet. And I don't mean ready to understand what I'm reading them, I mean ready to just give a crap what I'm pointing to in the book

 

vtlakey don't feel bad, I don't read regularily to any of my kids, never have, it goes in spurts. Sometimes they'll bring me book after book after book to read, and sometimes I'll offer and they don't care! My oldest is 7, in grade 2, and reading at a nearly 4th grade level, so I'm pretty sure it didn't hinder him much!

 

Phew! Good to know Danibell I did order the "black on white" and "white on black" books from Amazon and expect those any day. There are no words in those books, just imagines in b&w. I'm thinking those contrasting colors might actually grab their attention for a little bit. But if not I won't sweat it I figure once they are older they will love us reading books to them. Until then we'll just talk their ears off and making funny faces to engage them!

 

In my completely uneducated but experience mommy opinion lol, talking to and engaging them is just as good as reading, it's the vocabulary usage, the interaction and whatnot that's truly beneficial! :wub:

 

I read to them after breakfast each morning while they're in their high chairs and then in the afternoon while they are sitting up with their boppy pillows or in their bumbo seats. They LOVE storytime!!

 

My two are much more interested in eating the books than looking at them or letting me read them.

 

We seat them in their high chairs and read to them using sounds of various pitches (keeps them engaged), and show them the pictures of from the books. Then we pick out colors of the pictures, for example, and show them other books with the same colors. We act like we are very excited (again, it keeps them interested). The aim is not to teach them, but to make it interesting for them to learn when they are older. I think that it also lengthens their attention span.

 

I put them in their bouncy chairs and i sit in between them, facing them - yes i read upside down so that they can see the pictures.
I used to read when we did tummy time, it helped Ruby stay on her front for longer.

 

We sit beside our LO's while they're in their bouncy seats.