My favorite is also janieandjack.com, but we love babygap at www.gap.com and www.gymboree.com

Hi hypatia!

If you want, feel free to download the YBCR files that I created in Spanish and you can just translate the word and add the pronunciation.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I think the earliest you start with chinese the better because it would be much easier for them to remember the characters. We have been showing Valerie Little Pim and Wink to Learn. She does very good with both programs. The only issue is that I have no clue of chinese, so it is hard to know how much she is really learning. Again, as I have said before, to certain point it is just an act of faith. We do the same thing with German. I'm thinking about getting Little Pim in German, but I'm not 100% since I was hoping she will associated Little Pim with Chinese. Any thoughts on this anyone?

Also keep on mind that the yonger they are exposed to the language, more likely to not have an accent.

Kelen,

You can definetly do both LR and LM at the same time. That is what we have been doing and I think it works. Now, I try to show them twice a day but some time we can only do it once. The adantage is that the program keeps record of where you are at.

Wennie,

I wanted to let you know I got a shipping confirmation from fullfilment this morning. Thank you so much for taking care of this matter. I really appreciate it.

Hi Wennie!

I'm not sure what happened. I'm sorry, but I have not gotten anything. I just double check with the order confirmation and the address is correct. I'm home most of the time, so I'm surprised it got lost.

Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience...

Joha

Hola Sandra!

Bienvenida al foro. Gloria y yo somos de Colombia tambien. Yo empece estimulacion con mi bebe cuando estaba embarazada y retome cuando ella tenia tres meses. Ella acaba de cumplir el ano y pues ya esta hablando algunas palabritas, mezcla el ingles, el espanol y dice "no" en aleman  Tambien usa su lenguaje de senas el cual empezamos a introducir cuando ella tenia tres meses. EL otro idioma al que la estamos exponiendo es el mandarin.

En cuanto a tu rpegunta cuando empieces a trabajar, si es mas dificil, yo trabajo tiempo completo y cuido a Valerie. Desde que empece a trabajar tiempo completo no he podido hacer la misma cantidad de actividades que solia hacer, pero hago lo que mas puedo.

Se ve que vas super bien encaminada y qeu has hecho bastante cosas productivas con tu bebe. De todas maneras este foro es excelente pues siempre salen pregunticas adicionales y aqui hay gente con mucha experiencia.

Mucha suerte!

I'm actually very surprise too. Wennie has always been very prompt e-mailing back. I PM her here, no response. E-mailed back from an e-mail I got from them regarding there new schools, no response. I'm not sure what to do.

I didn't know they had just released LP is German. That is great! We have them in Mandarin and Valerie really likes them. I have been using Muzzy and a couple of the websites from the thread too. I'll keep trying....

I e-mailed them a couple of times and left them a message and never heard back from them. I'll try to PM Wennie. COuld you please give me her username?

Thanks for your response.

PS. Gabriel looks like such a big boy already! Cute, cute, cute!

Hello Everyone!

I was trying to find the thread about exchanging your old Tweedle Wink DVD's 1-4 for the improved version, but I couldn't find it.

Anyways, has anyone actually got their new DVD's? I placed an order for Vol. 7 more than a month ago and requested that they send it along with the improved DVD's. I sent my copies immediatly and it has been more than a month. Not DVD's, not response to my follow up e-mails. Anyone has had luck getting the DVD's back?

Please let me know if you find someone. For months we looked for people that could help us with materials in German and we didn't have any luck. There was one father that was married to a girl from Switzerland, but they just had their baby, so as most of as know, no time.

Have you found good materials in German?

Lee123,

Thank you for your input. We have a grand piano that we just need to color code with labels so she can learn with it. She loves it already.

mirra,

We rae having a birthday party and I though about building her a bear at the bear-build store, but my hsband doesn's think she will appreciate it because she is too little. Now that you mentioned, I'll keep it again in my list of ideas. I think is cute.

Hello Everyone!

Valerie is turning one in a week from today and we have not been able to come up with a good present for her first birthday. I would like to do something that she can keep through the years, something meaningful. 

I would like to hear from other people what they did or what they are thinking about doing for this special occasion.

Any ideas? Anyone?   

I'm in the states, but when we built ours we thought about using those camping mats and a friend told us that was not a good idea because the glue will go through them and the baby will be expose to the toxic chemicals of the glue> Now, I'm not sure if it would be the same since you are covering it with leatherette, but just keep it in mind 

I KNOW i won't harm my child by having her surrounded by many languages, but will she really benefit from this (I don't speak chinese or japanese, so there isn't any backup aside from those dvds..)

Based on what I have read the benefit is that once they study the language they will have no accent. This is huge! Believe me, I'm still learning English, but my biggest issue is my accent which I'll never be able to get ride off even in 20 years when I'll have lived longer here that in my native country.  I don;t speak two of the languages I'm teaching my daughter, but I'm confident that even if she mixes the languages at the beggining she'll qickly figure out which words belong to which language. We say this all over this forum, our children are geniuses! The youngest we expose them to languages the easier is going to be for them.