Also watching with interest .. surely you can make something for a lot less than $360 !

If you show her words often and quickly and clearly say the word  (doman method) , she will soon recognise them. i.e within about 15 repetitions of a word over about a week.

I printed out all the Doman dot cards ages ago, but didn't really get in to the rhythm of using them frequently enough.

My boy is nearly 2 now.

His reading is good, so I place the quantity dot cards around on the floor and  I have written the words for the number and the digits for the numbers, then i help him match the words to the numbers ... we've done this with other things like types of fish, herbs, animals etc (some films on my blog)... and i didn't think he would be interested in doing it with the dot cards, but it is definitely one of the top 5 requests from him for this sort of matching activity.

It's a good recognition of quantity that I think is the key to finding maths easy.

For simple sums, i will do something similar, but all with digits rather than the dot cards (unless he loses interest in this type of activity before getting that far!)

some slightly jumbled thoughts .. hopefully of use to you....

I think babies see the dots so quickly that it is hard to notice them see the dots !

In the Doman books it keeps saying that if they don't look interested try speeding up .. babies like new information and they like it fast.

My boy loves numbers .. and loves the dot cards.. he was going around the supermarket today shouting out all the prices (those under about 30 kronor at least)...  he can read all the number words and identify all the number figures.. but he can only really match the numbers/words to the dot cards correctly up to number 5 ... so his understanding of quantity is pretty much limited to the fingers of one hand right now.

I read on another thread (something about speed reading) that the mummy had said to her daughter to imagine she was taking a photo of the page with her eyes .. and thought that might be a useful idea for getting to grips with quantities when baby is old enough to understand such an idea ... probably around 2yrs old.

We've enjoyed kidstv123 on youtube .. good for alphabet, numbers, planets and countries !

People tend to get enthusiastic when they start to see some clear results. Its tricky when so young as in my experience results only really started being completely obvious at about 11months.

Larry Sanger wrote a good article about his experience taking on most of the arguments quite concisely http://larrysanger.org/2010/12/baby-reading/ .. its not too long.

The trouble is, imo that now that you know that you can do it , its hard to justify not doing it.

http://winstonking.blogspot.com/     reading is coming on a treat ..  maths has fallen a bit by the wayside !

I'd say you are right to be cautious ... everyones dog is completely harmless and wouldn't hurt a fly .. so how come 2% of people have been bitten by dogs in the US.   2 year olds is the most vulnerable age group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_attack

Julia Donaldson books are well liked.

especially - Zog , a Squash and a Squeeze, the snail and the whale, room on the broom

I have started typing them out and printing them without the pictures, just nice big words. He seems to like them just as much.

In Swedish
Lilleman , Nej Inte Tadlekeren (not not the dentist) , and Mimbo Jimbo.

W usually wants his Mum to read to him in Swedish and Dad to read in English.  I translated Nej Inte Tadläkeren in to English, but W sort of melted and became upset and emotional and wanted his Mummy !  It was quite a strange reaction.

There seem to be quite a lot of kids books that are funny (for adults) in Sweden  (many of which seem to be translated from French).  Its hard to find funny books in England or English speaking.

My son , (14 months),  smiles when i start to show him an equation, and usually gives a little chuckle either when he sees the equals sign or when he sees the answer.

I show them to him in the car (when my wife is driving)  - which gets round the problem of distractions and running (stumbling) around all the time.

I wouldn't say he finds it hilarious, but he is either finding it amusing, or is pleased enough with himself that he can't help his smile turning into a little chuckle.

At the moment i mainly show ones where the answer is less than 10, and only addition. For sums under 10, it can be easily followed up showing the same sum on your fingers.