Hi smidget810 and welcome to BrillKids
When I first joined the forum I read through all the past posts. About a week of sleepless nights but worth it.
Have you had the chance to visit
www.brillbaby.com? You will find some free teaching books that can be downloaded. There are also infant stimulation cards you can start using with your baby. I personally didn't start YBCR until after my son started whole word reading. I really like their series Your Baby/Child can Discover. When I started I used similar reading programs called Monki See Monki Do and BrillKids. BrillKids covers many more words than YBCR and also has sections for phonics, games, stories, multisensory which teaches vocab and you can also personalize or edit the lessons. Not to mention over hundreds of files that have been created by forum members that you can import into Little Reader.
I would definitely recommend teaching phonics to your baby. My son was reading phonetically at 15 months because he learned letter sounds, digraphs and blends. If I ever had the chance to teach another baby I would create flashcards of all the phonic sounds and teach the sounds the same way we have been teaching them to read whole words.
Once you start to read through past threads on this forum you will see that many of us have no limit to what is too much when it comes to teaching our children. Mario has the right idea whenever you are curious about a topic use the search engine on the forum and please do post any questions or comments you have.
I didn't start teaching my son with early reading methods until he was 6 months old and if I had known I would've started at the recommended age of 3 months. You have already given her a headstart by considering early learning.
We look forward to hearing about you and Mario's early learning journey.
Digg
