Nikita, I believe that if your parents would not do their pressure on you than you would sooner discover what you want to be.
With their pressure, you learned to surpress your feelings and desires. In such conditions, you don't know what you are and what you feel. You don't hear your inner self. Than it is a long way to get closer to yourself and  maybe you still have long way to go. (That is what a psychotherapy is about.)

You still can become a teacher. Your experience on early education might be something what other teachers don't have.

(I know my English is very funny )

about the expectations / child knowing what he wants to do.

I don't remember who posted this wonderful text but I saved it

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Four pillars of the power of Suggestion

Suggestion:
You have wonderful ability
Power:
Relates to innate ability

S: you are fine just as you are now
p: relates to issues of self-worth

s: It's OK not to be the same as everyone else. You have your own way of doing things.
p: relates to individuality

s: The answers all lie within you
p: relates to the power of creative thinking

2 important points here:

> Get out of the mold you have been in thus far and return to you primal, energetic self

> Evoke the next new ability

pg24 "If this way of thinking takes root in small children, there is no more need for them to be competitive. It becomes all right to live without always comparing themselves to others. I believe that these children will be able to perceive the essence of any situation and know what it is they really want to do, and also waht needs to be done in any given situation. I believe this type of education is incredibly important".--- Yumiko Tobitani.

mom, eat, flower
(mam, am, puķ)
at 9 - 10 months. From that time, she upgraded her vocabulary very fast, and now she is speaking better than any other child I know at that age

>>>> I don't believe we are making our children into geniuses

Yes, I think that "the real geniuses" often are unhappy and lonely people, and it is hard to live with them....
I just want my child to be happy and free, and successful whatever she wants to do! 

And I agree to Dad dude that the argument "very few Nobel prize laureates were child prodigies, .... and many were late bloomers academically" is not serious. It is similar as all other speculations.

It would be correctly to say "it was estimated that there were x% of child prodigies among Nobel prize laureates compared to x% of general population; x% of Nobel prize laureates can be considered as late bloomers" (reference).
Othervise, there is no difference between "very few" and "many"; every number higher than 1 can be called so.

 

I scanned Medline for studies on early reading.
I combined keywords like early reading, early reader, early literacy, child reading and "age 3", reading child adolescence, and more, and more. and did not find any direct study on really early readers.

(I did not search for papers on myelinisation because I don't know the background.)

Somehow I am surprised about it. Is it a kind of tabu? Early education has been debated over 50 years or more. But these debates are based only on speculations or on single cases. There is no statistics available. Story about Titzers children is not a scientifically proven study; it is just a single case.
Some papers exist, like these were used in article mentioned above. But several similar studies need to be done to have real results. We can not make global conclusions just on one study and one or two opinions.

Millions of early readers have finished schools. It would be so easy to take large group of 40-year olds, ask them (or their mothers) at which age they started to read, and study various aspects of their lifes.

Even IAHP people does not have (or does not give) such statistics. They say only that "all our children are highly successive" and than show some examples.

What is hidden here?

I have been thinking much about this.
With or without what I wrote already here http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/long-term-benefits-of-early-learning/


Sometimes (before this poll) I was thinking about some of my friends (no all of them) which started to read at 3 as I know now. Why these very clever, interesting and tallented persons are not very successful professionally. Some are ignoring their tallents (working in job what everyone can do), not knowing what to do or not working at all.

My opinion is - because all they were partly abandoned by their mothers. I mean, mother was working (from age of 2 months or similar), and grandmothers together with aunts were taking the main care, educating the child etc.
Acording to what I know about the child psychology, in these conditions the child is loosing his self-confidence. Child thinks that all other persons are more worth than he is. So if there is a competition or struggles, he steps back.


Almost all mothers think that they are the best.
But you never know.

If you are really concerned about the EQ of our child than I would advice:
- go to courses or lectures about the emotional parenting of child;
- go to child psychologist, to test if you are doing the right things;
- go to individual psychotherapy. parents intuitively do the same as their parents did. if there was something wrong - you need to rethink your childhood and what it did to you. it will help both you and your child.

In weekends, I usually go to countryside. Here I meet a girl which is 11 years old, she goes to a very small and remote countryside school.

Last week she told me that there is 8 year old boy in her class. He is very successful in all the disciplines. He is good also in sports, especially in running and basketball. (He is also as tall as this girl.)

During the first 2 months everyone looked at this boy as a funny stranger. but now everyone wants to be his friend. (she repeated this "everyone" several times.)


So I think that it is possible to bind early education and nice temper

last week I had a discussion about early education.
and there was one question which I coud not answer.

why you teach your child so early?
child wil go earlier to the school, earlier to job, and earlier will have grey hair.

what would you answer?

we don't have short versions of these particular words,
but words like grandmother (vecmāmiņa - ōmiš) I teach exactly as we speak it; it is in a jargon + dialect but sounds very sweet

read this

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-math/anyone-get-results-from-doman-math-method/

Here Domanmom says
>>> I started Glenn Doman's math program a few months ago with my son when he had just turned 30 months old (which is considered the cut-off age). ....  I am happy to report that all of Doman's claims have proven to be true. Hunter can now tell the difference between a card with 98 and 99 dots on it, and can add, subtract, multiply, or divide any number instantly.

Joha,
if you want to teach your child using red dots than you don't need to buy anything because in brillkids slideshow library you can get all the necessary flashcards and print them out or use them as slideshows. It is all you need according to Doman. There you can get also flashcards with other icons, and demonstration shedules.

So, I would advice to check the local free resources before you spend your money.

may be after some time you will find that it is hard to keep the interest about these dots.

In LM, there are various icons (cars, fruits etc.). You can add your own icons including the photo of your child.
You can switch slides manually or automatically.
Slices come with sound.
You can show the cards much faster than you can manually.
Somehow this program keeps the interest of my child very well (I participated in demo testing).

thanks

I think there is not a big gap between reading and EK and you should not be afraid of it.

I show sentences without pictures -
but I also show slideshows about body parts, vegetables, clothes etc., from brillkids slideshow libruary. Here are words together with pictures. I don't know if it is just reading or it is EK because these words are among the first 300 words which should be tought but they are grouped by subjects like in EK

I think it depends on what you are showing. If it is EK than picture is necessary. But just for reading I use sentences instead of words, and without pictures. It is something between GD and Titzers methods. 

I write my sentences in powerpoint so that there is one word per slide, and the story allways is about my child. For example. Lelde goes to kitchen. Lelde climbs on chair. Mom is cutting cucumbers. Lelde is eating cucumbers.
Some words repeat more than others but I don't care much about it. And there are no pictures.

In this way, we both enjoy reading. Randomised words are rather boring.

upd.
So I think that if the words are randomised than they are better with picture but if the words are binded together somehow than they are interesting also without the picture.

I have seen "Dora the Explorer" on TV. I would not buy it because there are very few words in English per one session. I have similar problem - living in monolingual environment and wanting to teach English to my child.

check these links
http://www.early-advantage.com/product/MuzzyEnglishTrialOptin.aspx
(this might be something very good)
and
http://www.hello-world.com/English/index.php

and also check the offer of Brillkids partners - tweedle wink, wink to learn, Little Pim.