Welcome!!

Isn't it amazing how you can love a child who isn't yours just as much as if he/she was?? Children are wonderful--whether you give birth to them or not!!

I bought my Tweedlewink videos online at ebay--smartbabymall.

Their prices were a bit lower than the Tweedlewink website.

I hope you find them!

I also have to add that, while I believe there's nothing that compares to parents teaching their children, sometimes tutors can be a good choice.

Take a foreign language, for example. I'm monolingual and it would take YEARS for me to learn enough language to be able to teach my child...and even at that I'd have an accent. So we have a "tutor" (babysitter/nanny) who speaks the language with our son. There's nothing like being taught a language by a native speaker!

So it depends on the subject and your knowledge of the subject.

Yes.

I'm amazed by some of my family members who turn the TV on to Cartoon Network and leave it on all day to "entertain" their children.

There are some terrible shows on television, and we really need to be cautious about what we allow our children to see. Garbage in, garbage out.

I don't let my child watch any live media because I don't want him exposed to commercials at this age. He doesn't yet understand that it's not part of the show, and I would hate to think of a company reaching my 2 yr old, convincing him that he needs sugar-cereal-O's or whatnot.

You bring up a great point!

Yes...this certainly is an interesting site.

I read something on the teaching of multiculturalism there that ended thus:

"Racism has no place in the education of an upright young Christian—it is a false religion. Teach the truth to your students. Leave lies like "multiculturalism" and other racist activities to the schools of the secular humanist state."

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Tatiana,

What, exactly, does a homeschool consultant do? Do you meet with parents and determine what the best way to teach a child would be?? Or...?

Do you work for an organization, or are you self-employed. And should all homeschool parents see a consultant?

Sorry--I've just never heard of one before!

It's nice to have you here!!

Wow -- 2 sets of twins. You are sooo blessed. Think of yourself as winning the baby lottery.

I'm new here, too, but I hope to learn from you.

Once upon a time, Santa

I'm shocked by all the downloads available! And the ones I've seen are really good quality.

Is there any reason why most of them are PDF?? If I want to upload some of mine, would I need to do them in PDF format?

This is a wonderful site with so many great resources...I'm just disappointed I didn't know about it sooner. These last two years would've been MUCH easier :-)

Thank you, everyone who contributes.

My son LOVES the BBC foreign language course Muzzy.

It has 4 DVDs per set--two are shows in English and two are the exactly same shows in the second language.

I've learned some Chinese from it, but I don't know if it's truly a good way to learn. I'd love to see it reviewed...because it's expensive, and with times like they are people should use their baby-building library money wisely

I think it depends on your personal situation.

Our son attends a church Mother's Day Out once a week for 6 hours. While I fully agree that a child is better off at home with Mother and Father than with strangers for the bulk of their time, I don't feel that six hours away from mom and dad will cause any sort of harm.

On the contrary, our son LOVES going to playschool and always waves hi when we drive past the church. They play outside, mostly, which is fabulous for tiny children. It lets him explore a new environment and encounter different ways of thinking. It also gives him other people to learn from.

So, I would say anytime the child can part from mom for a small time without getting upset (18 months, perhaps) is fine.

Thank you very much. I'm absolutely in awe of all the wonderful information, and the free downloads are absolutely wonderful. I can't wait to find more time to get involved!

We have a Spanish nanny come 1-day a week (used to be 2 days) and she talks with him exclusively in Spanish (that's all she knows).

We're really blessed because we live in Texas and there are a TON of Spanish-speaking individuals. We can't go to the grocery store or park without meeting someone who's speaking Spanish, and Timothy will use the appropriate language (English or Spanish) to talk to the child/adult. Plus, we watch Spanish sesame street, listen to Spanish songs. I know enough Spanish to get by and my dad is relatively fluent, but most of his exposure has been through the nanny and media.

His third language is Chinese. We first did Chinese CDs and the BBC course Muzzy program (which was wonderful). I learned at least 30 words in Chinese, so you can imagine how much more a two-year-old would learn from the program. Then, we had a foreign exchange student come and live with us for the year and he is from China. He is a wonderful student, and we love how he shares his culture (and language) with us. We also just bought Disney DVDs in Chinese to watch to reinforce the the language.

So, no...I'm really not "fluent" in anything other than English...but that doesn't mean my child can't be.

My son finished YBCR videos over 6 months ago. We had the VHS and the DVDs (they're a bit different) so my son saw the words in lots of different orders and versions.

He still likes to watch them from time to time. I keep them up and pull them down for "special occasions" and I've found that he still knows when to anticipate the songs and what words come next.

So you move forward with books, flashcards, and other words and keep the videos a special treat, I think :-)

Hello,

I am texaslady22, and I just heard about this forum from a friend. I was a member of another forum, but I never even knew this one existed!!

I have one little boy, Timothy, who is 2 years and 3 months. He was born 6 weeks preemie and spent 2 weeks in NICU. We started doing Doman with him when he was 6 weeks old, and he was crawling by 4 months, creeping by 7, and he crept a loooong time after that :-)

He had a mild midbrain injury that we hope has been resolved by all the creeping that he's done, and once he turns 3 we'll turn back to crawling for a bit to resolve a pons issue.

He's a happy, healthy child and we all enjoy learning in this house!!

We do:
Physical
Encyclopedic Knowledge
Math
Reading
Swimming
Suzuki Violin

Timothy is bilingual in English and Spanish and we're trying to get him more comfortable with Chinese. We also did sign language, but once he started talking he just wasn't interested anymore.

We also do lots of "traditional" learning at our daily "school time" - we're all about having fun with books, fingerpaints, crayons, and whatever else is interesting to us.

I'm SO pleased to meet like-minded parents.

We have a blog at http://domaninspiredparenting.blogspot.com/ that we've been keeping since the time Timothy was 6 months old. Doing Doman hasn't always been easy, but the results are amazing!