Kappasweet - that is fantastic!  Hearing your baby read his first word is a great moment.  Now it will just get better.  You mentioned that you were now doing Starfall - what is that? I have not heard of that program.

Fanh - change the order of the cards everytime you show them.  You want to do everything you can to keep your baby from getting bored of them.  Also, after a few days start adding one of two new cards and retire one of two from the stack.  I have found that showing word cards and picture cards of the same item has been interesting to my daughter.

I was wondering the same thing and would love to hear from someone who has set this up.  Thanks.

Hello,

I recently discovered this forum and have been very impressed with the files that members have uploaded and shared - thank you all!

I have a 13 month old little girl, who is already talking up a storm and running at a pace I'm not sure I can keep up with.  I am also pregnant with our second child who will be due in April 2010.  I am a big believer in Glenn Doman's teaching methods and have been teaching my daughter reading with flash cards and have many many bit of intelligence cards with facts that she was really enjoying until running became a higher priority.  I have the Math program but have not yet started it - yes, I should get moving on that one soon!

I am currently in the search for a software or DVD program to use for teaching Reading and Math as I'm not sure I can keep up this pace of manual flash cards with 2 kids at different levels. Ideally I am looking for something that I can show to a 3 month old and a 21 month old at the same time and they can both enjoy it and learn from it. I have seen a number of posts about 'Your Baby Can Read' and 'Little Reader' and have been unsure about which one would be more effective. Any advice in this regard would be welcome.

One more request to the group - I live in the Chicago Western Suburbs and I would love to find a Mom's Group to join with people who are into educating their children. I currently attend a neighborhood Mom's Group and they all think I'm a little crazy to be teaching my daughter to read before she enters school - so I would love to have some Mom's who share my value of early education to get together with. Send me a message if you are interested.

It is so nice to be here. I look forward to getting to know you all.

I found that when my daughter was first born the crawling track was great. She crawled 5 feet, at an incline, when she was 5 days old - and I was thrilled!  By about 3 months old I found that when she put her arms out they got stuck and there was not enough space for her to bring them forward. If I had to make the crawling track again I would make it wider than the dimensions in the book.  Then at about 5 months she was strong enough to push her upper body up and bring her arms under her, so the crawling track was useful again because it was easy to put at an incline. Then at 6 months she started crawling on her own without the incline, at which time we retired the track.

I started showing my daughter flash cards, both words and facts, as soon as I thought her eyesight was developed enough, which was around 2-3 months.  When I pulled out a new set she was very interested, but after seeing them for a few days she would look away clearly bored. At that time she couldn't talk, so I assumed that when she was bored she knew them and I moved on to the next set.  She started crawling when she was 6 months which was the first time that I could really see that she understood what I had been teaching her. I would put various sets of cards on the floor and say to her "Go and get the birds" and she would crawl to the birds and bring them back to me. We also did this with all her toys and household items. I would lay them on the floor, name them all, then ask her to put the spoon (or whatever other item) in her toy box, and she would crawl to it, pick it up, and put it in her toy box.  This game has also proved to be very worthwhile for me, because now she is very good at putting her toys back in the toybox after she has played with them. She is now 13 months and chats up a storm.  Every words is not distiguishable, but many are. She will look through books and see a gorilla or giraffe or clock or whatever other item it is and point to it and say the words.  She also likes to point things out to me while we are out on walks. If she sees a dog, she will point and say dog, or girl, or boy, or swing, etc.  Since she is now talking it is pretty clear that she has learnt the basics that I have taught her.  I still have not seen any indication that she knows the American Presidents, famous people, or other more complicated things that I have taughts her. I don't test her, unless there is a game that I can incorporate it into and make it fun for her.  Every child is different, I think you just have to wait for your child to show you that he or she knows something - which may happen at the most unexpected time.