Thanks Mum

I have dropped an email to Trebellina via the same address you have given me for 2-3 days and have not heard back from them since then. How fast did they reply you please?

hafam

Hi KL and the management of Brillkids

Could any please help me? I purchased coupon for Trebellina a few days ago, went to their website and tried to use it. The message was the coupon was expired.

Could you please explain where I went wrong please? if it was really expired and I was issued with the code by a mistake, could you please credit back my points then? Thanks.

Hi all

I'm asking the board to open one forum folder for New Zealand. If you are interested, please post same request, we need 3 requests to get the folder opened.

Kathy

Thanks Lappy.

I did hope to get that forum opened to attract all NZ parents as I don't know any here and would like to know them.

I will post another post asking who are in NZ then?

Kathy

Please create a forum folder for New Zealand. THanks.

some good food for thoughts girls.

My baby is 14 month old so it's early yet but you have made me aware of a few good things. I will definitely watch out for negative words and movies now.

Suppose we have to introduce good and bad to them later, not sure when and how though.

I'm frustrated with available books out there, been thinking of making boods myself but not sure if I can afford it. What would the cost be like to publish one's own book please?

I like the book not too heavy that the child can not even lift it (my baby likes to flip through the books herself). I like big big words like we teach them word by word following Doman's method. or at least near the size. I like the collection of words be the words we have been teaching them (to start with). I like bright colour in good contrast with the background but not too much details, but not too plain either. I think picture on left page, words on the right page would be good. Words only with picture pull out or slide out would be good too. At my baby's age, I would like round edge for the book with thick pages (maybe not like boardbook but thick enough not to accidentally hurt her nor easy to rip off, and easy to flip through pages).

Hi all

It's all very encouraging and thanks to you all.

My daughter (14months old) said Mommy in Vietnamese very clearly for 1 day when she turned 13 months. Before that she only liked to practice Papa.

Then she stopped calling Mommy or Papa and still not coming back to those 2 words yet, no matter how much we tried to entice her to call us.

She obviously let us know who is in control of her speech I think. And she has ways to express her wish clearly so we understood each other quite well.

Now she starts to say A-Boo for peek a boo. And the other day she said "Up".

Sometimes I feel like "should I be worried since there are kids who speaks more than my baby". But most of the times I'm ok with her progress. I think unless there is a problem in understanding each other, let the kid decide when he/she wants to speak.

Thanks nhockaday

you did help clear my mind. I'm going to buy the 6 dvd now.

kathy

Hi nhockaday

I'm thinking of buying TW 6 DVD or 9 DVD package. I saw that you said you have all 9 DVDs of Tweedle Wink, and I wonder if you could share a few things please.

Are all 72 phonics taught in the DVD phonics please?

Does the math DVD follow Doman's method please?

How would you teach math to your baby please, do you use both LM and TW?

What is your experience with the DVD languages please? Do they have good collection of words? many words there? any phrases or sentences?

Thanks

Kathy

Thanks all for helping. Looked like you all invested in the medium price range for digital piano. I have put my budget lower but now I may have to reconsider.

thanks again.

Thanks.

by 'dynamics' you are referring to the weight of the keys right, that when the player press on the key with different levels of weight, the sound produced changed?

Hi everyone

I don't know anything about musical instrument. I'm looking at buying a piano but it's very expensive. I remember someone in the forum mentioned about digital piano, price range is still much higher than a keyboard.

Could someone please enlighten me the pros and cons of various types of pianos? A keyboard will do or it needs to be at least digital piano? And what brand I should not look at. Does it matter how old the instrument is or not? and any other questions that I do not know to ask which can have an impact on my baby's learning of music and piano. Many thanks.

mtb999

I attach here a ppt file for young infant, black dots 1 to 14. Hope it save you some work these early days when sleep is very important for you.

You have a 2 week old baby right? You can find instruction on how to teach young infant in the How to teach your baby math page 159. Summary of that section, I have posted in the previous post (point 2). You need 15" square cards, you need BLACK dots 1.5" diameter. However consider you only have to do 14 of them like that (quantity 1 to 14), it would not be too much work. You can buy a ruler with some big circles in it to draw dots and fill the dots with black permanent marker. You don't need to have dots at exact 1.5", bigger is ok, or even better. Actually you can use a lot of things to draw circles, what about milk bottle caps?

If you want to print, just draw big dots on A4 size, to the size so that 14 dots will fill the space of A4.

Later on you can use my attached files if you like, just that it does not have black border around the dots (which provides extra contrast). and it does not suit your baby right now. Black border is around the dots, the card does not need borders.

In the case you want to make cards manually later on, you can use 1" (bigger than the requirement of 3/4"). The point of the square cards is that so you can show the dot cards to your baby in any direction. I compromised that with convenience and printed my cards on A4.

I could not afford to buy the kit from USA either. Our NZ dollar is worse than your Aussie one.

http://www.gentlerevolution.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=G&Category_Code=sbp

Just look at the Institute again and found this kit, USD 125 plus shipping cost, no discount.