Well, my almost 10 month old was very excited about seeing the animals on our computer screen this a.m., but he was so distracted by wanting to touch the keyboard. I have been reading more on the website about how I can convert the files to a slideshow that he could view on the T.V. and think that will work quite well (as soon as I can figure out how to do it!). My other question is... would there be a way for the child to advance to the next screen by touching anything on the keyboard (without navigating away from the Little Reader program? I know nothing about computer programming - so I may be asking a very naive question - if so, I apologize!)
Well, a new feature in the upcoming build (targeted for some time next week) is the (optional) deactivation of the keyboard and mouse (except for the ESC key to stop) when you put it onto Auto-forward mode, so no matter how hard your little one bangs on the keyboard, it will still carry on playing, uninterrupted. Not sure if it's a good idea to let the child control the pace of the playback by banging on the keyboard, cos I think your lessons would end very quickly each time!
I have another question regarding the program overall... that is, how does one make decisions about whether the child is gaining awareness/knowledge of the words being presented? Is there a certain number of times you are to present the word lists? Do you have specific tasks that parents are supposed to do after the presentations? This info may already be on the website, and I just haven't come across it yet...just curious.
There really is no hard and fast rule for the frequency in showing your child. My advice is always the same - take your cue from your child. Typically, I myself did it twice a day, for most days. Sometimes we would get through many categories (cos my daughter would complain when I stopped), and others I would do less as soon as I felt her attention was not there.
Glenn Doman recommends that you try to stop it BEFORE your child's attention span ends, so that he will yearn for the next session more. We tried to do it sometimes, but more often than not we went to the point of her showing not as much enthusiasm, and we would stop immediately. But many times, though, our daughter would devour through about 4-5 sets of words (and each set was about 10-15 words) when we would then put a stop even though she still wanted more.
I would typically repeat some categories each day, but slowly phase out one in place of another new one. But we always had a 'favorite' that we would show our daughter more often than others, and they included "Daddy" and "Mommy."
KL
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