it means also that saying "thank you" isnotaspamanymore

Hi Shuki,
My question is how to inactivate icon sets which I don't want to use now. I don't want to delete them or to export somewhere, just to switch them off! here are several icon sets, and I want to use just one of them, and others later!
Thanks

I think you are a highly organised person if you managed to use sets of 5 flashcards, several times per day and several days. I did not because my doughter always tried to grasp my papers.

I don't think if my curriculum will help you but I do our learning in a totally relaxed and unorganised way. I don't show single words at all (well, just sometimes), and show only powerpoint files with pictures and words. sometimes pictures only. So my doughter learns names of animals, buterflies, insects, flowers, emotions, etc.
She knows many words. Last week we were in zoo, and she recognised all the popular animals, and knew their voices. I think, knowing so much about the world is good for her development. Probably she will start to read after some time, but it is not a priority in this age

I think you should
- change the subject, show something completely different;
- show faster;
- show pictures and use powerpoint or other resources.

When I prepare a session to my foughter i do not think "will it be educative enough" but "will it be funny enough". Your children are young. Are there any deadlines for starting to read? I guess, no.

but please remember that asking "which colour is this"  is  testing; we should not do it too often. (I did and I stopped this.)

yes, the brillkids slideshow about the colours (you can get it for free immidiately) is the top 1 slideshow for my  doughter

We play with toys like this:
where do little bear has it's nose? here it is! (pointing)
etc.
when she is upset, this game always helps because she likes to show that she knows all the body parts.

colours - I found a lot of tips with googling.
she learned colours one after one, few weeks per colour. the first was brown. I used to comment what is in her diaper, to encourage her toilet training. but in the result she learned the colour

es beidzot dabūju little math! vēl ar kāru aci skatos uz tweedle wink memory magic lielo paku, kam līdz maija beigām ir 50% atlaide. bet laikam nesanāks to atlaidi izlietot - jaunumi tādi, ka rīderi tikai līdz 20. maijam varēs dabūt par punktiem; steigšus jāsavāc trūkstošie 2000 punkti priekš tā.

kā tavām meitām ar vācu valodas mācīšanos? droši vien jau pašas no sevis būs iemācījušās

Sveikas! Jā, klusums ir liels
es pa bišķim rādu to pašu ko līdz šim, pa vienai reizei dienā un brīvdienas izlaižot, jo tad esam laukos. svētdien bijām uz zoo, un sīce pazina gandrīz visus lielos dzīvniekus. tagad viņa ar citu interesi skatās arī zvēru bildes, jo zina, kas tie zvēri ir patiesībā
vienu lietu gan es nesapratu. piegājām pie brieža aploka, un meita teica "biedis". briedis bija tālu tumšajā kaktā, bet uzraksts bija daudz labāk saskatāms. ka tik nebija tā, ka viņa nevis pazina, bet izlasīja

>>>>  mothers behave differently with boys and girls from the time they are born

I agree to this. I am sometimes surprised that mothers spend more time educating girls than boys. Also some school teachers say that boys come to school less teached than girls. In average. Many boys do not receive any teaching from their mothers but mothers think that their sons are brilliant anyway. My personal opinion is that this is because of the male dominance in our society; many mothers think that boys are good as they are but girls need some improvement to be anything! And also in the adult world we often see that women needs to be better than man, to be in the same position!

But it is just my funny theory, do not take it seriously!  (I have a girl) 

Now I know that early learning itself does not cause unhappy personality.
This is a side effect which can happen with unhappy parents and badly instructed parents.


It is very good that currently there are several active discussions on psychology.
I think, it would be very good to have a special board in this forum where to discuss psychological aspects only.
Probably there are psychologists and teachers which can share their experience. 


I have read ~ 1 m3 of books about the parenting and child psychology and I have attended courses on children emotional parenting. But I still have to learn and think because early teaching is a very particular case.

When I prepare my materials I try to choose things which are not the same as in the school. I mean, I try not to follow the school program but teach something else which develops my child and is interesting for both of us. For example, I teach her ~20 butterfly species, bird songs and rare wild flowers and I am sure that this will not overlap with the school

Being funny does not mean to be like a clown from circus.

I think it means that you dont show boring things and don't sleep during sessions. But you show love to your child all the time and you have the same atitude like you are shoving a new toy.

I am not a funny person but if I show a material prepared by myself than I feel that I am proud to show it, and my child feels my enthusiasm. If you don't feel any enthusiasm about the material you are going to show than don't do it

For me it was impossible to show enthusiasm about the red dots

If you don't feel enthusiasm about the words - show words with pictures. prepare your materials yourself. choose things you like.

es visu laiku nevaru sataisīties
kuponu jau dabūju, bet mana bankas karte neder, jāpieslēdz laulenis, bet vakaros aizmirstas

I was thinking why there is such a high risk for early learners to become loosers.

(I am early learner and looser too, so I have right to talk about it )


Testing is a part of traditional teaching.
Now I know that testing creates stress for child, and that children often answer wrong because they can not say precisely what they feel and think.

But there is something more which I understood just now.

If the child answers wrong, there is a moment of disappointment. Even if the tester does not say anything bad, for short moment child thinks that he is not good.
As more teaching, as more such moments when child thinks that he is not good enough for his parents. These moments accumulate in lower self-confidence. 
In result, such early-educated kid has lower self- confidence than un-educated child of the same age. By default.


When I ask to my doughter questions like "how many fingers there are", she always replies "two". Probably, she knows more but can not say. I will not ask such questions any more and never.

I will let my child learn in the same way she learns to play and to have fun; nobody is testing her progress in these disciplines



upd.
and thank you for this discussion because I discovered such an important thing for me