Reviewed by the Chilkibo team Your toddler reaches for your phone instead of the board book you picked out for story time. Or the opposite happens. You download a well reviewed reading app, and your toddler still carries the same worn board book around the house. Both patterns show up in homes everywhere. Neither one…
Reviewed by the Chilkibo team Toddlers do not sit still for story time. One minute they point at the pictures and laugh. The next minute they climb off your lap to grab a different book. This is normal. It does not mean story time is failing. The fix is not a better book or a…
Reviewed by the Chilkibo team “My toddler cannot sit still for anything.” Many parents say this. It usually comes with a worry that something is wrong, either with the child or with how story time is set up. Short attention spans in toddlers are normal. The real question is what kind of content holds a…
Reviewed by the Chilkibo Editorial Team using pediatric literacy research and child development sources. Reading aloud to a toddler looks nothing like reading to an older child. A toddler squirms, grabs the book, and turns three pages at once. Some toddlers insist on hearing the same page again and again, while others want to flip…
