This looks really nice!  My daughter's too young to start, but I've been reading Doman and planning.  I didn't think making that many flashcards would be time-effective; a powerpoint makes more sense.  But I do have a question: What size is your monitor screen?  The six-month flashcards are supposed to be 6 inches by 22 inches, which is wider than anything but a widescreen TV.  How big are the letters when you show them?  Does your child seem to be able to see them just fine?  I have a netbook, so my screen's tiny, but I could hook it up to an average computer screen.

Both times I got pregnant (one miscarriage), I "just knew" that I was pregnant before any other real signs.  I'd never thought anything like that could happen to me, but I was sure, and I've never felt that I was pregnant at any other time.  Within a day or two of that, though, I had very tender and swollen breasts.  I didn't take the test until about two weeks after my period was due, both times, because I was second guessing myself, but my intuition was right.

I haven't had a similar situation yet, but I can see why you'd be concerned.  Have you talked to your husband?  Has he noticed the same behavior from your daughter, and is he worried?  And have you told him your concerns about letting your in-laws watch her?  He seems like the logical one to stand up for how he wants her treated at their house, since they're his family.  If he's not worried and you are, it's a lot more difficult.

Thank you so much for bringing up this topic!  I was very worried when I read Doman's reccommendation because it made perfect sense, but the Back to Sleep propaganda freaked me out.  My compromise at the moment, as someone else said, is to let her nap in her track when I'm awake and checking on her (every five minutes - I'm still scared), and have her sleep on her back in a crib at night.  But the additional research is fascinating.  Maybe I'll let her sleep on her stomach more, or at least without checking so often.  She can already roll from her stomach to her back (at six weeks) and has amazing head control, so I bet she could get herself out of a rebreathing situation,  Apnea is still scary, but it looks, from the research in this thread, that if stomach sleeping increases the risk of apnea at all, it's marginal.  This is really interesting.  Thank you for the discussion!

I am so glad to find this forum and especially this thread!

My baby is only six weeks old, but we've done the program in Doman's "How Smart is Your Baby?" and she's always getting comments on how strong and responsive she is for her age.  I find that I do act ashamed of telling people what we've done; I shrug it off as "luck," which it isn't at all.  I've told family members a little, and they're supportive, but I'm still afraid I'll get told that I'm "pushy" and "depriving" my child of her childhood.  I know it doesn't add up logically (a few minutes a day, only done if she looks like she's having fun, is depriviation?), but I'm still scared.

I think I will be hiding the flash cards, which sounds ridiculous, but I don't want to have to argue about it.  I don't want people to be judging me, and I'm convinced that they would.

However, I'd never even thought about how much TV most kids watch before preschool.  My husband and I don't have any TV in the home (we have a television so my husband can play Dance Dance Revolution, but no cable or local channels) and I would never show my kids TV.  Maybe a few movies, but I'm not planning on more than 1 movie a week, and probably less.  So it never occurred to me that a "normal" childhood would include lots of TV.  That makes me feel a lot better about a few minutes a day spent with flashcards.  It's got to be better than yul gabba gabba (watched it babysitting once and was appalled - stupid, ugly, pointless in my opinion [sorry if you like it!]).

Maybe I will look into media-interactive learning programs.  I didn't want to have any "screen time" for my kids, educational or otherwise, but I'm really not convinced that flashcards will be interesting enough on their own.  The descriptions of Little Reader sound very interesting (just found this today and haven't read much yet).  That might be worth using my computer with the kids.

Anyway, it's so good to be in a place (even virtually) where everyone is supportive and I don't have to defend myself.  I'm so excited to teach my baby anything she wants to learn!  I'm glad that other parents feel the same way.

I'm in Salt Lake City with a six week old baby.  I would love to get together with other moms who've done early learning and talk about how it went; it's a little intimidating.  I'd love to hear other people tell about how well it works and have them listen to me talk about my baby - I'm afraid I'll bore my family talking about my brilliant baby.  I'm a stay-at-home mom with one baby, so I've got lots of time, especially daytime hours.  I would prefer meetings in the Salt Lake area, but my parents are in Kaysville, so I go north often, and my husband's family's around Highland, so I can go south too.  If there's anyone else who'd like to meet up and wants to PM me or post here, I'd be happy to find us a location!

Hi, everybody!  I'm very excited to find this forum.

My baby is six weeks old and while I was pregnant I read Glenn Doman's books and was fascinated!  The idea that babies can learn languages very well is obvious to me.  That reading and math could be considered "languages" they could learn just as easily if we could make it so the babies could see them would never have occurred to me, but makes perfect sense.  I'm very excited to start it!

I'm following the program outlined in "How Smart is Your Baby" right now, and that introduces the math and reading cards next month.  Before then, I'd like to do some research in different methods; straight-up reading flashcards strikes me as, well, boring.  Maybe the baby won't think so, so I'll try them, but I want to have some other options if she doesn't like them.

At the moment I read to her several times a day, We're learning to swim in the bathtub (I was a children's swim teacher before I got married) and she loves to do backfloats and tries to blow bubbles, but doesn't like it if water gets in her mouth.  I play the piano and cello and plan to teach that as well; at the moment, we listen to classical music and identify the composers and solo instruments.  (I hope this is a place where it's OK to brag like that.  I can't do it to anyone else; even with my family and in-laws, who are supportive of early learning, I'm afraid to wax too enthusiastic.)


Anyway, I think this is a great forum.  We don't have internet at home, so I don't know how often I'll get on, but it's great to be here!  Thank you, everyone who created this resource.