Stop it! Put the flashcards down and nobody gets hurt. Just leave that child alone - well, not literally, but please stop "educating" him. Sheesh, way to ruin the process before it begins.
Here are some ideas. Read aloud (yes, you are going to find some state of the art recommendations on this blog such as "reading aloud"). Read whatever it is *you* are reading. If you have a snuggler you have yourself a scholar in the making. Remember in To Kill a Mockingbird where Scout talks about how Atticus would read the paper to her? That's what you're after. If you have a snugglebug, let them snuggle up while you're reading the paper, or that computer magazine, or War and Peace. (I recommend you save "Cosmo" for behind locked doors).
Sure, go ahead and read Pat the Bunny and that kind of stuff too. Those pictures books are going to be teaching things you don't even know you're being taught (did you catch that? "They're going to be teaching things *you* don't know *you* are being taught"? You are going to be learning so much good stuff!). The Story of Ping is more of an introduction to Asian studies than you realize.
How about the classics? Pooh? Just the story of a stuffed bear? Nay forsooth, Milne's books teach language as art through prose.
Which just reminded me of something. Prose can be like music. The other day at my daughter's violin lesson her teacher started reciting Shakespeare with great drama, his words rising and falling - crescendo and descrescendo. Good music is prose (and should be played that way). Good prose is music (and should be read that way).
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