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How do I read to my child?

Re-reading, and re-reading, and...

OK, so you've read Good Night Moon twelve times this week--and it's only Tuesday! Don't despair; your child isn't purposefully trying to drive you crazy. When youngsters insist on repetition, they are simply trying to learn. In the same way that a child stacks the blocks and knocks them down over and over again, a child is moving the ideas and concepts from short-term memory to long-term memory.

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