Once daily? Twice? Share how you use BrillBaby w/ your baby.

[nc_wahm]

With all the categories and playlists being posted daily, my eyes became bigger than my stomach, that is to say I suddenly wanted to expose my 16 month old son to everything from nations flags, body parts, and sea creatures all in the same sitting.   And I saw his interest in BabyBrill waning, all because of my zeal to instill knowledge in his rapidly developing mind.  So I caught myself. I reviewed Dr. Glenn Doman's  book How to Teach Your Baby to Read and decided to use the multimedia flashcards in lieu of handwritten flashcards. I now cycle through the multimedia flashcards after having exposed my son to them consistently 3x daily, making a big hoopla about getting to use the computer. And I am pleased to say that today Winston read the word "car". Yipppeeeee! Harvard here we come.

[nohayo]

I lost you for a second there So you are saying that doing some physical handwritten cards actually made him more intersted in the computer ones?

[nc_wahm]

I substituted the Glenn Doman handwritten cards for the multimedia ones and just used his daily program of progression instead of bombarding my son with random words with out any rhyme or reason (as I'd previously done )
Daily Content: 5 sets
One session: 1 set (5 words) shown once
Frequency: 3 x daily each set
Intensity: Baby Brill Multimedia Flashcards
Duration: 5 seconds
New Words: 5 daily (1 in each set)
Retired Words: 5 daily (1 in each set)
Life Span of each word: 3 x daily for 5 days = 15 times

Always stopping before Winston gets bored.

PS. I had to skip the Babybrill activity today because Winston was cranky and teething and was having none of it. So we just went to the library and checked out a few books.

[Bystre deti]

I do the same thing with my daughter but using another program. I would love to use words from (and using) The Litte Reader program but I do not know how to solve easily "5 sets with 5 cards each with one retired from each every day" problem in this program. Can you help me how you do it? Thank you

[nohayo]

What about the retired words...do you ever revisit them?

Thanks for the explanation

[first_mom]

Good day my virtual yet very dedicated parents out there

Oh how I wish I have the energy to do all the activities mentioned in the forum. For the time being, I let my 6mths old baby boy watch the YBCR DVD daily. I'm not sure whether he's enjoying it or not, but he seems to be focused and curious or shall I say suddenly-become-a good-boy everytime I turn on the DVD (which is unusual for an active baby like him). We already move to Volume 1 today. Yippieee! As for the Brillbaby flashcards, we do it once daily before bedtime.

[Stef Ku]

I agree with you first_mom!  I also wish I could do everything that I have learned here so far - just thinking about the possibilities of teaching my baby makes me excited as a mother!

I have also bought the YBCR dvd videos, and I am showing them to Angela (4mos.) - although I am not quite sure that she is paying much attention to the TV.  I have found that whenever I show her black and white cards in the afternoon (everyday, at least once a day), she becomes very focused and calm; she also likes touching the cards as if studying the patterns very closely.

I would like to make the transition to use Little Reader very soon - I have downloaded and reviewed the program, (I've shown it to her a couple of times already) and she seems to respond happily to the sounds and pictures.

[KL]

One thing we keep emphasizing is that the more variety the better. Don't just use Little Reader, or any particular 'method', but the more variety the better!

Depending on your child's interest towards each 'method' (which could be different from child to child), you may adjust the proportion of time you allocate between each method. But the more variety the merrier!

[Bystre deti]

You may feel bit owerwhelmed on the beginning but I would advise to start just with something and when you get familiar with the method you can start using another one. Step by step you can get familiar with it and soon you will see that knowing what to do makes things much easier and takes less and less effort and time. Watch you baby and accordingly adjust what methods you are using and how much time you spend with it. And as KL said the variety is the best and hopefully soon you wil see that you can easily achieve even that.

[first_mom]

Oh tq very much KL and pupisek for the useful advice. I must say that I'm still at the "try and error" stage here. Hehe. Overwhelmed I am, no doubt, but of course I need to speed up as my baby keep growing day by day and just a wink, he's already 6mths!

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