Hi everyone! After hearing about Glenn Doman recently, I've tried to read everything about him and have landed here very quickly. I am so happy to find a place to communicate with other parents who believe all children can be amazing and have fantastic talents. Some of the ideas are quite unusual so I think people I know here will think I am a crazy helicopter parent if they here I am teaching a toddler to read (to be honest, I did found the idea crazy but was converted after reading How to Teach your Baby to Read).
I have two lovely daughters, one is almost 2 1/2 and the other 3 months old. I tried some things with the little one like placing her to sleep on her tummy and doing tummy time every day - which I didn't do at all with the older one. Even at 2 months, she was far more advanced physically than her older sister at 6 months. So I have discovered that Glenn Doman knows what he's talking about. The funny thing is, I have a degree in cognitive psychology and I specialised in gifted children, but still I had never heard of Glenn Doman. It shows you the huge gap between what practicioners know and what academics have learnt. But I have discovered this in many fields since having children anyway. So I am really curious to read about lots of ideas here and try them out to make up my own mind.
By the way - I've been keeping a small blog for a while where I write about early learning, home schooling, gifted children, and fulfilling potential, not only in the intellectual but also the spiritual sense. You can check it out on
http://www.geniusexperiment.com - would really love to hear what people think. I really look forward to talking to you all!
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