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We only do English once per week, but we have been doing word flashcards. Mostly nouns though, things he sees in everyday life. Wave was not one of the words we've shown him.

I see that you started with flashcards and after that you tried YBCR. Can you share with us at what age did you start using reading material and what were they at the differents times in his life.
My grandaughter is 2 month old and so far we have been doing some visual stimluation with balck and white cards.
When should we star with colored flashcards of objects and when with letters.

How are you going with YBCR affter this months?

I started at 4 months with physical flashcards thought I had LM. Because I was in countryside and offline. ...

In order to use LM you have to be connected to internet?
What about LR?

What age are the kids you are using it with?
 Please keep posting as you continue using it.

I respect their opinion but totally disagree with their expressions especially about spanish speaking people having lower IQ.
I learn Latin in highschool and know that it is usufull for learning other languages but i would not choose it for my grandsons before english, french or chinese.

Thanks a lot. i will try one of those samples with my grandson right know.
Karma to you for all this information. I think it is very important to help kids and wathc how they develop. I was amazed to see that he was counting by twos. Maybe he is doing that in preschool.

Dad Dude,
I was missing your interventions in the forum. Now i can see how busy you are. This manifesto is somethink i have to highjlight and read more than once and keep this points in mind when developing our education plans.

Just to round your comments.
Re #3,
Yes,i see it is difficult to draw a line in what 'playing' is or learning activity since every experience enriches our knowledge. I undersatnd you refer to 'formal' reading, writing or atoher type of teaching/learning activity.

Re #13, We definitely agree. 'regimen' was not what i meant but it is good to have a scehdule even with little ones to ensure that you do not missed certain activities inadvertidely but this those not mean that you have to follow the schedule rigurously, especially with babies. It is not critical if you miss certain activities. I think that if you are homeschooling (age 4 or older, with less hours for the younger ones) it is very important to cover all the subjects. As you are planning with H, maybe if not on the date programmed, anytime during the week.

Hope to be heraring more from you.

I have not yet read the whole article but what called my attention is the recomendation on the languages that are best.

They say:
If a student were to study only two foreign languages, Latin and German would be best, as these two languages most influenced English. A typical third language is French or Classical Greek. (In order to maintain a highbrow curriculum, we strongly advise against Spanish.)

I could not found the reason behind this espression. Do you know why wouldn't they recomend spanish?

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I do like Saxon. Another really good math program is Christian Light. www.clp.org
 It is created by a Mennonite company but is seemingly becoming more popular than Saxon lately. Has very little if any Christian content in the program ( you would most likely see a word problem with Susie going to church ) but other then that its all math. 

Thanks Tracy. i was looking into the content of the curriculum and found some examples we can print for my grandson to practice.
This is where they can be seen:
http://www.clp.org/store/by_course/45

I have a question. If wou would start again and not homeschool but reinforce a school curriculum, which one would you choose Saxon or Christian light? 

Even though when my kids were small we did not knew about mats i think it is wonderfull nowadays. My grandson pass many hours playing safely on the mat and now my grandaughter is also benefit from it for tummy time and later on crawling.

I found this manifesto very good and it is an excellent compendium of what we have been reading in this forum.
Before talking about some of the points I want to add that it would be good to mention the special bonding you obtain with your child.

I agree with mom2bee about understanding math topics by children.

If I understood well:

At number 3 you talk about play and only play in childhood’s life. We have always consider early learning another form of playing. Each time I ask for showing the education bits to my grandson he was so excited as if I told him to play hide and seek or any other game. At the end you mention ‘learning feels like play’ but maybe that can be emphasize more.

At number 13 you say ‘there is nothing wrong with trying to get a child to start on a regimen of learning of some kind’. Shouldn’t it be expressed in a positive way? It is the best thing you can do to start on a regimen…
What do you mean by ‘it requires careful design and forethought, and your approach definitely should depend on the age of the child’. Maybe that may discourage some parents or make them afraid of doing the right thing and in the right way. As you say, paying attention to the child’s reaction and not forcing when they look tired or teaching in a cheerful way isn’t enough to guarantee that you are doing it correctly?

At number 24 and 25 you mention the classics.  Can you mention some?

At number 43 to 46 I think I am misguided, maybe you did not ment this but I understood: Early education make child different and to avoid problems in school it is better to homeschool. ‘Parents who are not homeschooling must coordinate carefully..’ Maybe we can have someone share their experience being a non homeschooling parent.

How cute, and i like how she is counting in spanish. 
Tell her that she has been seen all around the world. If you have a map, show her PERU and tell her we love her and maybe someday we will get in touch in spanish. 

Amazing, i can't figure someone remembering all thos numbers even with a lot of practice.
Maybe he memorized them with a certain rhythm? it looks as if he was singing a song?
Anyway, excellent memory.

it certainly looks very nice and attractive for kids. As tracy says it is excellent to see the translation while listening, i wish we cn have dvd in Chinese as this one.

Thanks a lot andreas, i apprreciate.
I really love that language but am not sure how we are going to do to teach it to my grandaughter. i guess i will have to get a lot of material and of course LR chinese.
Thanks

Amelia,
I couldn't see more than 4 products and when ask for the catalog i had to enter some codes and information i do not have.
Can you share what type of products are there for baby 2 month old or preschool 4 yrs old?