Yes, but only if I see them ready for that. I understand your concerns, and I think you are doing it right by thinking twice and looking for other opinions. Please keep us informed about your meeting with the psicologist!!

I'm afraid I can't help you with that... in my country children can skip grade only once in their academic life if they are assessed as "gifted". My eldest is going ok in her grade, she's not specially advanced (I didn't know anything about EL when she was a baby and unfortunately I didn't do it). I don't know how my twins will do, now they are only 19 mo. But I think I will wait to see how they perform in first-second grade and then use the opportunity to skip if I think that's the best for them. Skipping at 3-4 years would be nonsense here, they spend their time mainly painting until they reach first grade. But this is only what I think now... 

I think I just want my children to have the opportunities that I didn't have. My parents didn't go to school and they always have encouraged me to excel academically, but I had absolutely no help at home, and of course no early learning possibilities. I did well, I have a PhD in physics and I'm a researcher as I wanted, but I really would have liked to have more support and opportunities at home. And I had to fight hard to go into my PhD, my parents just didn't understand the purpose of it and they wanted me to get a job as soon as possible. 

So I try to give my 3 kids lots of opportunities. To learn early, to learn different languages, maths, music, sports... and later they will choose. Of course I would like them to be physicists or mathematicians or the like, but I will be happy if they have a good and broad education... 

Thank you so much Skylark for your words, it is very encouraging to read that when even your family is completely against early learning and try to "boycott" it! 

Please tell us about your experience if you finally try French too! I'm sure a lot of people here can help us with additional resources and suggestions.

Hi Mario, I'm afraid I do it with a lot of improvisation, too much I would say. We do a LR session of English each afternoon, and sometimes in the morning before work. During bath time I usually speak English to them. We sometimes watch Pocoyo on youtube and I try to comment it with them in English and ask them about what they are seeing... things like that. But nothing really structured.
Spanish is our mother tongue and they will learn Basque at school, as I can't speak it properly.
With French I'm planning to do the same as with English, alternating between them during the week.
I would like to give you a better defined structure, but I have three children, a full time work, dad is not at home except for the weekends, and a day has only 24 hours...   

Thank you so much lois1, you are very encouraging!! I have been thinking about it and I have decided that we will go for French as well, alternating between English and French during the week. I have very short time with them, unfortunately, because I work full time, but we will try. Anyway, at 18 mo, there's still plenty of time to learn even if you teach them only for 15-20 minutes a day.

Sounds like you are doing a very good work with your little one!! People here are so inspiring...

Hello, I have just seen that French curriculum is available for Little Reader and I'm sooo excited! But... I'm teaching to my 18 mo twins to read in Spanish (mainly by translating LR), English (LR), and next September they will start school and they will learn basque (there's no other option as we live in a very small town and everything is taught in basque, a language spoken in North Spain). I can speak French and I like it a lot, I would really enjoy teaching it to my children, but do you think it could be too much for them? I don't want to overload them with so many different things! We are also doing Little Musician, Little Math...   
Thank you!!

I'm also interested in this!  Following!

I'm sorry, Nee1, I have the Spanish version "El hombre anumérico" and just translated into English without checking. The original title in English is "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its consequences", by John Allen Paulos (http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363382272&sr=8-1&keywords=innumeracy+mathematical+illiteracy+and+its+consequences).
Sorry for that!!

I haven't gone through the whole post, but, have you read "Anumeric man"? It reflects the consequences of the total lack of basic mathematical knowlege in all kind of people (including the a priori well-educated). Anumerism and the general lack of scientific knowledge extends everywhere. I am a physicist and work in a private research centre. I work with engineers, chemists and other physicists, and you wouldn't believe the kind of things I see everyday. Many of them cannot understand/ perform the simplest calculations (not just mental calculation, I'm also talking about very simple programming or excel files), it is just incredible, and very, very, sad.

I give them straws and they call them "batons". They use them to keep the rythm and later to conduct the orchestra!

I hadn't thought about showing printed words at the same time, it's a good idea. We have lots of Doman-style cards all over the floor so that they can step on them and even destroy them if they feel like that... I usually tell them, look! you found spider! (or whatever). I will  try to prepare some printed books, thank you!!
About imput and output... the "problem" is that my girl is absolutely happy performing! The boy just listens most of the time, and that's completely ok for me. But she likes it! So I ask her...   And if I don't do it she will tell me anyway... When I notice that she doesn't want to try I just show them the words a little bit faster than usual and they also like it...
Thank you all again, you are always an inspiration.

In my case there is clearly no formula, because my twins are exposed to exactly the same environment and their language development is completely different.

The girl was an extremely early talker. The first time she said "mamá" clearly, extending her arms towards me was at 6 months 1 day. And they were premature, so if we correct for that, it would be less than 5 1/2  months. From that moment, her vocabulary increased exponentially. At 12 months she was joining 3 words in a sentence. Now (18 months) she makes complex sentences using nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. And she tells me the English name for many things if I ask her to (thanks Little Reader!). 

However, the boy started saying some simple words at 9 months, but his progression has been much more slower and linear. Now he says around 70 words, but no sentences. His pronountiation is far from being clear and no English except for "bubble". 
 
 

Hello,
My DD (18 months) can read lots of sightwords on the computer, but if I ask her to read some of these words on a book or piece of paper she doesn't even try and tells me to read it. How could I encourage her to try?
I also find very difficult to have my DD and DS (twins) to focus on books when I'm reading to them. They look at the pictures for a second and then turn to play with something while they listen, they almost never try to follow my finger. Do you have any advice on this?
Thank you very much in advance

Shipping to Spain is 50$ !!! Half the prize of the product!!!!  >     
I would like to buy the Spanish version while waiting for Little Reader, but not this way...