Hi Jess N Ella,
I have YBCR and my LO's love love love it!... Both my 21 and 10 month olds intially were quite skeptical about it, giving me funny looks... and I used to only play half the CD for them just to sort of acclimatize them to it due to the fact that the cd's are quite long.
Personally, my older one ended up reading all the words in the starter pack way before the 1 month was up, but my smaller one (10 mo) doesn't show any signs of recognizing any words.... Not too worried though..., let her take her time
... I also have LR, but they seems to prefer YBCR, although they do sit through Lr completely.
My personal idea of how the YBCR cd is prepared is that, after every 20 plus words, there is an activity (song/rhyme), and the LO's end up looking forward to it. So they have to watch the words to get their TREAT (song/rhyme)... so what I do is, before I play the CD, I tell them that if they want to watch the song, they have to sit quietly and listen to the words... of course I watch it with them, interaction is VERY important!
So they start clapping and dancing when the song comes, and when the lesson begins again, they sit and watch... sometimes repeating after it/ doing the word actions. I'm quite happy. So, Ella... do try it out first... small sessions at a time and see how it goes. Good luck!
Regarding the mixing of methods, I dont think there is any problem as long as your LO loves and enjoys it... make it fun, ok?
@ Jess: yep... seriously VERY free... hahaha!!!
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