I came across a website called PreschoolRock.com which is all about teaching science to pre-schoolers. I thought it was quite good and wanted to share this with all of you.

But will the adding and subtracting be taught using numerals or dots? I dont have the Glen Doman Maths book so I dont know how to advise someone on teaching Math to an older child.

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My friend wants to start the Glen Doman method in reading, maths and encyclopedic knowledge but is under the impression that it is now too late (her daughter is two and a half) and that she should have started at 6 months or  the very latest before her daughter was one.

I told her it was fine to start now. Is that correct? Will the flash card method still work? I dont want to give her the wrong advice. Please can anyone advise me.

Thank you for your wonderful advice MomtoMany!

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Thank you mommy_rn for you excellent advice.

Dear Indidee,
Thank you for taking the time out to write such a detailed answer.

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Celeste

Thank you Anjie. It's heartening to know that others have the same concerns.

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Thank you for your reply. I would love to  have lots of children but as I mentioned before, there are several issues militating against it such as finances and my husband isnt that keen.

Thanks once again.
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Hi everyone,

I wanted to know what your opinions were on a one child family. I have a daughter and everyone is pressuring me to have another because an 'only child is a lonely child'. For various reasons, including financial, my husband and I are not sure about having another. The main reason why we would  have another is so that our daughter wont be lonely. What are your opinions on this issue?

My daughter's first word was actually three words which she spoke at 9 and half months. Pointing to the fan on the ceiling she said, "What is this?" My husband and I were shocked. She continued saying just  this phrase for a whole month (no Mama or Dada) and then at 10 months she said "Dada" and "See Saw."( she didnt start saying Mama till much later even though I would be the one who spent all day with her!) Her favourite phrase is still "What is this?" and she says it all day long pointing at objects even if she knows what they are, but she usually now just abbreviates it to "This?'

But I have to say, that although my daughter started talking at 9 and a half months, she started crawling late...not till 2 months after her first birthday and babies younger than her were walking!

I started reading to  my baby when she was newborn and today she absolutely LOVES books. The first books we read were touch and feel books "Thats not my puppy', 'That's not my lion' and 'That's not my mermaid'. There are many in the series which is by Usbourne. Somebody also gave me a book called 'What Floats' by the Baby Einstein Company which was also popular. I found the following books very popular with my daughter:

1. Thats not my puppy, Thats not my mermaid, Thats not my lion by Fiona Watt (Usbourne)

2. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

3. What Floats by Julie Aigner Clarke (Baby Einstein)

4.  First Picture Book Nature (this is excellent!) (Usbourne)

5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

6. The ABC of Art by Julie Aigner Clarke (Baby Einstein)

7. Animal Homes by Julie Aigner Clarke (Baby Einstein)

8. First Picture Book Nursery Rhymes by Jo Litchfield (I think!) Usbourne

9. Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell (a lift up flap book)

10. Where's Spot? (I forgot the author's name)

11. Spot Can Count

12. Wendy the wide mouthed frog (I forgot the author but you can look it up on amazon...this is a puppet book and it is very good)

I generally find some of the Baby Einstein books boring even though it says 'from 6 months' or 'from birth' on the cover. They seem too complicated and verbose to hold the child's attention. Books like 'What does Violet See?' and 'See and Spy Counting' get rave reviews from parents on Amazon.com but my daughter has no time for the text and is only remotely interested in the pictures and that too only some of them. At first I felt really confused as to why she was not interested in them when all these other kids were but I guess kids are different and have defined tastes. But some of the Baby Einstein books are good and one advantage is that some, like 'Animal Homes'  can be used up to 4 years old.

I show the word first and then the picture, so the picture and the words are on separate cards. In my experience, I found that my daughter loses interest if I just show words and it is the picture that comes after the word that holds her attention. I hope this method is ok.

I think if Baby Einstein or any other baby dvd is watched in moderation it is fine.... My daughter loved Baby Einstein DVD's but I never used them as a babysitter...more like a 'digital book'. It never affected her language or speech to my knowledge: at 9 months she started talking and she spoke a sentence as her first 'word': "What is this?" and she has never stopped chattering since. She will be two next month and already has a very large vocabulary and she now finds Baby Einstein boring. By the way...some of the Baby Einstein books are quite good such as 'The ABC of Art'.

Can we start off with any words in step one? What I mean is, do they have to be household objects or 'self' words. My daughter is interested in things like 'moon', 'kite', 'banana'?