I am glad to hear that you are planning to add this as I was wondering the same thing.

My daughter has a little cash register that she loves. It has tags that can be scanned and it will tell you how much you need to pay. She then has to put the correct number of coins in the slot. It also will ask her to press specific numbers or combination of numbers.

In my experience my daughter is interested in material that is new. She can watch a 30 minute DVD straight through, but once she has seen it a few times then she will only watch a couple minutes at a time. I take her being bored of something as a sign that she knows it and I move onto something else. I don't assume that because she is not interested that she is no longer learning, but rather that she already knows it.

I am totally fascinated by everything I read about the Shichida classes.  I have not found any classes in the U.S - does anyone know if there are any?  Are there any books that I could follow to implement some of the exercises at home?  I watched the videos on youtube of the Shichida kids and they are totally amazing - I would love to teach my children some of those skills.  Thanks.

I have the book and would love to swap. What do you have to swap?

Reading has been taught by many people across the globe in many different ways. There is no set formula that you have to follow. Every additional thing you do will help.

Here are a few suggestions:
Print a few flash cards. You can sit her down, show her 10 cards, shuffle the cards the following time and repeat, etc. My daughter found sitting for flashcards too boring, so I pasted them around my house. I started with items in the house (table, chair, fork, spoon, etc.). Once she knew those then I did other words and pasted a picture next to it (like the word bird and a picture of a bird) Once I thought she knew the word then I removed the picture, kept it where it was for a few days, then moved the words around the house.  We play a lot of games - I ask her to find specific words, or choose out of a few words. My daughter likes to move a lot, so most of what we do it in motion.

When you read books that have large fonts point to the words as you read them.

Download free PowerPoints and play them.

Download the free trial for Little Reader and try it out.

When there is a specific topic that your daughter is interested in then make a PowerPoint or words for that topic. We go to the zoo regularly and my daughter loves the monkeys, so I did a set with all the monkeys that are at the zoo.

Watch Readeez videaos on YouTube. They are fun and a great way to expose her to new words.

When you do drawing/coloring write a big word on a paper and read it to her. Hold her hand and help her trace the word.

The method you use is not that important, what is important is that you make it fun and interesting. If she seems bored of one method then try something different.

I found a course for teaching perfect pitch that is a set of CDs that can be purchased and I was wondering if anyone had tried it.  It is Perfect Pitch® Ear Training SuperCourse, by David Lucas Burge and the website is http://www.perfectpitch.com/home.htm

It is pretty pricey, but I would love to hear if anyone has found it a good way to teach prefect pitch.

I looked at this site, but without being able to read German well I am not sure where to go to play the songs. Is there just sound, or are the words displayed in large font while the words are sung?  I am really looking for more songs like genkigerman.com that have catchy tunes with the words displayed.  Thanks!

How will this be different from Your Baby Can Read DVDs?

My mother taught me to read when I was a baby, and I was reading books by the time I was two. I know how much I gained from learning to read early and am certainly going to do the same for my children. Now we also know about teaching math, music, memory, facts, etc.  It is so much fun both for me and for my daughter discovering what she is interested in and fully capable of learning.

My experience is different from the rest of the posts. When my daughter was 3 months old she started to show a pattern of when she peed, so I got a potty and put her on it when I knew she needed to go. I then expanded that to after every nap and after every feed - and she pretty much peed on the potty every time. I never put any pressure on her, I just made it available - and had lost of books next to the potty which we would read while she sat on it. Then I started to be able to see when she needed to poop and I also put her on the potty for that. She is 15 months now and has been talking pretty well for 3-4 months. She now says "potty" or "poop" when she needs to go.  I have not yet taken her out of diapers, but plan to do that in the next few weeks. I just haven't figured out what to do when we are out (she is really scared of public toilets with automatic flush and won't sit on them).  I grew up in a culture where almost all children were potty trained by around 1 year, so this was the norm there. I think once a child can walk and communicate that he/she can be potty trained and that waiting too long (like until they are 3) lets them get too used to going in a diaper that moving to a potty is a bigger transition than it needs to be. 

35 years ago when I was a baby my mother taught me to read with homemade handwritten flashcards in red ink. Nothing special, she just sat me down and flashed sets of cards each day.  At age 2 I was reading at first grade level. I am living proof that it works.

Every child is different. I started Little Reader with my daughter when she was 13 months and after 2 weeks I printed some of the words we had been looking on large paper and put them up around my house and asked her to find various words - and she did!  She also started running up to them and reading them out loud. That is after seeing those words for only 2 weeks, one or two times per day most days when she was 13 or 14 months.

I have to agree that the whole claim seems unfounded.  I love reading DadDude's posts!

I would suggest sending the manufacturer of the sterilizer a message and ask them if the specific model you have has an expected lifetime (number of years) after which time it should be replaced.

I have a similar sterilizer, although a different make and model, that I used for my first child and am now planning use for my second.

Yamaha piano classes only begin at age 3+. Is there anything you would recommend doing with your child before age 3 to prepare them for Yamaha classes?