I used encyclopedic knowledge with my 12 year old son when he was a baby.I remember him recall different programs when we would study the subject later on during school time.But even more amazing was his ability to add on large amounts of new information and retaining it all with great ease.It meant we diddn't have to spend much time on topics that would be taking half of schoolyear to cover and absorb for average student.He has much more time to pursue his interests and stays ahead in scholastics, plus he loves learning.My 10 year old son would never sit ,always on the move, but he was reading by 2.5 so I knew he listened.And he does remember the things I showed him when he was small too.So I guess for me it was beneficial and I'm teaching encyclopedic knowledge to their younger brothers and sisters even with more determination.

Thanks aneta for sharing.
It encourages me all the more to teach my child encyl.

Thanks for the links.
I liked the file. Will try using it on my child.

Dear Lucy, I teach my baby French as well - I do not speak it. (you dont have to)  I use the French bits from LR  very good material, audio, french music and also the cd-Rooms from Doman. They have the same information -BITS-  in each cd-room in 5 languages one of those French.  You can totally rely in the accuracy and good pronounciation of the Institutes (Doman) materials.

here is the link :
http://www.gentlerevolution.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=G&Category_Code=CDR

Here is a sample: taken from their website.

Our Picture Dictionary CD-ROMs make it fun and easy for your child to learn single words and images in five languages with correct accents. Each of our ten volumes contains 150 colorful images, and large-print vocabulary words spoken by a native speaker in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Italian. Each volume is completely interchangeable. You can begin your program with any volume and then move on to any other volume. You can show your child either the words or the pictures or both!
Volume I categories include:

Countries of the World

National Flags
Colors
Birds
Fruit
Musical Instruments
Mammals
Flowers & Blossoms
Fish of the Sea
Musical Symbols
Chemical Elements
Constellations
Human Skeletal System
Mathematical Symbols
Reptiles


Good Luck !!

Gloria

Hi Gloria
Wanted to know since your purchased the DOMAN Picture dictionaries, do you have option to choose between lanugages or do have buy seperate DVDs for a different lanugage

I just started playing cds for my daughter - I am using http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/
as this method is based only in audio they do not use books and it has been highly reccomended to me by several people.

Other cds are talking and refering to page numbers or other references that well if you are only hearing would not make any sense - Pimsleur is based on audio exclusively.

Will keep you guys posted  about progress - can not yet comment on results.

regards

Gloria

Hi Gloria
Could  you share with me as to how you go about this programme. Do you normally play this CD just before your child falls a sleep and how long do you play and how many times during the day.

Does anyone know, can i use sleep talking on my 18 months old child? How do we teach our child when they are a sleep, how long should we teach and what subjects can we teach? Is there a process do we follow.

Thanks,
and what about smaller objects, how do you label on smaller objects like shower head, wall clock etc...

Wow, i like the thaught of labelling, it never struck my mind to do something so creative.
But wanted to know, was these labels kept permanent on the object, so when you had visitors over would you still have the labels on / off...

Also, how do you label on smaller objects like shower head, wall clock etc...

[Teaching addresses]

That's a good thaught.
Infact, the way you teach them whose is mom, dad , milk etc... in the same way you an teach your phone numbers and address. You can do it the Glen's Doman method.

Teaching addresses
You can teach addresses to your child in the form of sentences. Just like how you would teach any sentences using the Glen's method/program.
Steps
1) First I would show the picture of the home.(just like one of the BIT Cards).
The picture of the home shown should be the same home for which you would want teach the child address, so that later the child can relate to the right home and address.

2) Then teach the word "home" so your nephew can relate the picture of the home to the word "home".

3) Once he knows what is a home, you can then introduce couplet words like
"Mommy Daddy's home"
"uncle Glen home"
"aunty Lucy home"
By doing this the child can understand whose home it is. But make sure before introducing couplets, the child should know the word mommy, daddy, aunty... In short the child should be familiar with both the words seperately before introducing it them together

4) Then you can graduate by using short sentences like
"The color of "Mommy's home is brown"
"Mommy and Daddy live in house number 112"
"Mommy and Daddy lives at intersection brook drive and foxwood
"Mommy and Daddy lives at street number 21"
and soo on....
In this way you can interchange the name "Mommy and Daddy" to aunty Lucy or uncle Glen eg "The color of aunty Lucy's home is brown"

Hence in this way you can teach your nephew anyone's address eg school address, office address etc..


Teaching Phone Numbers
Incase of phone numbers, you can again teach it the Glen Doman's way
Steps
1) First show the picture of a phone using the BIT Card

2) Then, show the word card "phone"

3) Then you can go ahead and introduce couplets words like this is "Mama's Phone" , "Dada's phone" . Use the name of you family members that you want your nephew to learn the numbers for

4) Then introduce the each phone number seperately to your child in the form dot cards,

5) Then gradually use numerals and dots together to show its relation

6) then, show the whole number together and say this is "Mama's phone number"
You also be specific by saying "This is Mama's office phone number"

7) To be more creative, you can get into showing your nephew short sentences on phone numbers
Eg. "Mama's home phone number is <mention the whole number>
Since your child is familiar with all the words in the above sentences, he now understands the relation of all the words together.

Hi Fatima
I didnt do a course, i just bought all of Glen's books and started to read them when i was pregnant in my second trimister. Hence i had ample of time , to understand the teachings of Glens progam and to prepare my material.

Infact I use little reader to teach maths /numbers as its faster. And i use my dot cards materials to do my problem solving session.

The only reason why Glen recomends red dots of certain size is because the dots are simple and not distractful unlike showing cars / teddybears where your child might focus more on the pictures than the quantity itself. And also for another reason small babies can see better in red colour of certain size, that's why he recomends using red colour on word cards and then gradually move to black colour.

Regarding the icons in little math reader i normally would use them on older children since icons are pretty small. I dont think showing red dots / or other icons would make a difference understanding quantity. Your children can learn quantitly even when counting / sorting blocks, hence there is no difference no matter what you show.

About whether your child can tell a quantity, yes definetly, you need to be consistent in your program and believe that Glens program does work and most important of all you need to trust your child and believe in him because you have been teaching your child with so much of love and patience. Every mother worries this, but believe me as you do this program, your son will surprise you one day.

Thanks Mandi
I am glad you liked it

Hi Judy.

It really sounds like you've done a great job. Congratulations and thanks for sharing with us.

Teresa.

Thanks Teresa

[to all my post on this page as to why we shouldnt worry when our child doesnt show the right words or numbers]

Hi luckymommy1307
I feel you are doing a good job, and continue doing.
I can totally relate to you, as i went thru the same phase with my daughter.

You could refer to the below links where are shared my views on the same topics

You could refer to all my post on this page as to why we shouldnt worry when our child doesnt show the right words or numbers
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/reading-success/new/?topicseen

Your could also refer to the below link on Problem Solving Techniques
Its the 3rd post on this page
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/problem-solving-glenn-domain/msg19958/?topicseen

Also i have attached my sample excel sheet requested in one of your post

thank Kyle, a great video. karmas to you

For Mandi, about teaching phonics to your child, i would rather just wait, till my child can read sentences, read my post on the same as to why

http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/how-good-is-funnix-reading-program-(phonics-based)/new/#new

Yes, you are right.
This is what he says
When we teach our child alphabets or phonics at early age, we only confuse them,
And that is because, When you tell them this a or b? your child will ask what does it mean a or b? And well what would be our answer to them? .

Glen gives an eg below
"Well its b because...uhh..because, dont you see its b beacuse ...well, because it was necessary to invent the.... ah.. symbol to... ahh..
and so it would go on. In the end we just give up and might say its b because i am telling you its b"

Hence we would not be able to tell our kids why b is b and why is a is a as we unable to label it with a fact. But by showing words instead of phonics or alphabets we can best relate to them with an object or action. Hence showing a picture of a dog and saying the word dog would make more sense rather than saying d stand for dog or ba mean baa, as this way children relate words with objects which gives a wider vocabulary of reading words insteads of alphabets and phonics

I remember when i was thaught phonics in KG,it confused me, and that time it didnt make sense to me as to why i am learning it.

I guess, it would be best to introduce phonics when your child can read sentences because, your child now understand the relation between words in the form of couplets, phrases, actions, nown etc, hence introducing phonics would now help your child to pronounce and form newer difficult words

I too just leave the symbols on.

I dont think it matters, however Glen has not mentioned anything specific in his book as to why you shouldnt use symbols, i guess the only explaination he gave was that children learns the word plus or minus or equals in the same way they learn the word yours and mine, which is by seeing them in action and in context.

So i guess it doesnt matter.