That's wonderful!!

A 50% discount would be really nice, and Signing Time makes fabulous DVDs!

Of course, I have to get Little Reader first :-)

Thanks for offering such great incentives!

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I did a very small,informal survey amongst 9 or 10 acquaintances whose kids where having trouble reading and only one had done a proper cross pattern crawl.  I would love to see a large study done on it!

Does anyone know if the child will  reap the same benefits when " bear walking " on hands and feet rather than crawling on the knees?
thanks

Sorry, I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add that we had our son evaluated by a Doman-trained neurodevelopmentalist and we were told that Bear Crawling does NOTHING for the brain but it does help muslces.

Bear crawling will not grow the brain like creeping and crawling, according to this highly-trained individual.

Our son was born premature and we were told that he'd have so many problems in life (poor vision, ADD, academically behind, so on and so forth).

No mother wants to hear such a grim forecast for her child, so we looked into helping a child and found Glenn Doman. After we read all of the books and listened to all of the lectures, we absolutely knew this was the right program for our family.

We started our son on a GD program at 6 weeks old and now at 2 he's absolutely amazing. He attends playschool once a week and the teachers are amazed at all he can do--he's just such a wonderful child with such a big heart, too!

If we're ever blessed with another child, we'll most certainly do another GD program with him/her.

Chinese characters are made up different parts. If you can read the parts, most of the times, you can guess the meaning of the character. Showing the different parts in different color highlights each section, I think that will help the brain to "see" the individual parts.

Even without the different colors, a child might (or probably) still learn it on his own. We don't teach a child the parts of a sentence, but the child still learns how to put one together. Exposure, exposure, and the rest will take care of itself!

In the Institutes lectures, Doman says that the physical program is most important.

However, what's most important to least important, in your opinion. What do you think is most necessary all the way down to least important?

Mine would be this:
1. Physical
2. Reading
3. Math
4. Encyclopedic Knowledge

But I also think that foreign languages are extremely important, too. Show me your list!!

We also do Classical Magic and I absolutely love it! We bought it at a homeschool conference and I'm sooo glad we did. It's so funny--I've learned so much from it, so I know that my son most certainly has!

Additionally, we--go to a Mother's of Preschoolers group 2x/month for play and interaction, go to preschool at the Children's Museum 1x/week (parents stay and participate), go to the Children's Museum to play as often as we can, go to story time at the library, go to anything "special" that's in our town, whether or not it's meant for children.

Those of you who are doing an Encyclopedic Knowledge program, what was/is your child's favorite set of Bits? Was it homemade by you, or bought, or on the computer? Were you surprised that was their favorite, or did you expect them to love it?

Ultimately, how long did you repeat this category since the child enjoyed it so much??

Everybody says "He looks just like his daddy!"

It's true--my son looks just like his father and acts just like me, his mother :-)

Wow! I must have completely missed that in my copy of Parents--how absolutely ridiculous!

Those birds can't talk or calculate (that we know of) or speak multiple languages or become potty trained...all measured of intelligence in our world.

Thanks for posting that!

There was a man called Fred
'Rise and Shine' said he, and got off the bed.

Fred never complains, he is always happy
He smiled and would make his hands clap, clap, clappy

We took inspiration from a favorite children's book (Dr. Suess's Cat in the Hat) to help us decorate our nursery.

Our sons room looks a lot like this: http://www.noahsroom.com/

The stripes help his vision and the colors and dark and provide a nice contrast. Plus, everyone who comes over says it's sooo cute and since we did it ourselves it was very inexpensive.

Whatever you choose, make sure YOU love it...because you'll be spending a lot of time in there, too!

Congrats to your daughter.

Aren't children little geniuses?

Even though I firmly believe that children can read from an early age, it always amazes me when they actually do it :-)

There are "windows of opportunity" to learning.

This is not just something Glenn Doman says but rather something that is verifiable and widely believed in many academic communities.

For example, learning a language is much easier for a young child than it is for an adult. If you learn a language as a child, your pronunciation is better than if you learn it as an adult.

From birth to the age of six, a child's brain is growing at the fastest rate and thus the child can learn the fastest--anything from swimming to speaking five languages to doing instant math.

My son is two, and he's learning on average 10-20 new words a day...and that's normal for a child his age.

So, learning is easiest for a child up until the age of six, but learning doesn't stop then (obviously). If it did, none of us here would know anything we learned in college.

Try to teach as much as you can while it's easy for your child to learn and retain, though.

The Doman program involves so many different facets: reading, encyclopedic knowledge (facts aka. "Bits"), math, physical excellence, music, and foreign languages.

Doman does say, though, that reading is one of the most important academic activities. And just think about it--if you can read a book, there are all sorts of things you can learn in so many different categories.

Most libraries have the book How to Teach Your Baby to Read by Glenn Doman. Check your public library. It's a quick read, but also an informative read--it details the how as well as the why and the theory behind the method.

It's difficult to describe the program in a short sentence because it all depends on the age and ability of your child. But the point is to help your child learn to recognize sight-words and later the child will learn "natural phonics."

Have you ever heard a little child say "He drinked his milk?" or something like that? We never tell two-year-olds "if you're talking in past tense, add -ed" -- they just learn that on their own from hearing people talk. Likewise, if you show a child lots of words, they'll just learn on their own the sounds the letters make (even if they don't know the letter names). That's Doman's theory behind his method.

Start with something simple--just start with Your Baby Can Read while you read all the information on Doman. At least you can feel good about doing something and start a program right away with minimal preparation. Then, phase in reading words, then math, then EC, then whatever else you want.

Good luck!!

I agree about lacing cards and beads, and I would also add cutting with scissors and using a hole-punch to develop the fine motor skills.

Also, I heard pottery is extremely good for the muscles in the hand, as is working with clay.