I have the same question.
Soon I will have 10 000 points for the purchase of one of these programs.
I think, I will start with LM because I can not replace it with anything else.
There is a large collection of *.ppt slideshows available. I am also very used to powerpoint. And my child most likes the slideshows prepared by me. So I think LR can wait

yes, there is something strange about the testing. When I ask my doughter to name a colour, she usually says wrong. When she is playing with herself, she says the right words of colours.

We were discussing this with my husband a week ago.
Horse, cat, dog, pig - I learned them very early but I don't remember the circumstances how I learned it. It is like I always knew them. There is also no need to remember these circumstances because there is so much new information; only the important things are filtered. After 3 years, child already knows the " bulk"  information, and can afford such a luxury as remembering the learning process. (this is our theory.)

And I remember from somewhere (may be it was Scott Peck " the road less travelled") that a child remembers the early childhood as something like a main sense. Happy, unhappy, being loved, being hated. It goes deep in the uncousness.

I understand that everything what happens (especially our expression of love or abuse) unfiltered hoes to uncousness and may stay here forever.

I agree also that there are some unclear things in this business.

For example, I purchased " how to teach your baby to swim". While reading it I found that it is only about the newborn babies. Swimming is started in the first weeks, and than continued and developed. Chapters like "how to teach 2 years old"  is about babies which started to swim as newborns.

My child was 18 monts old, and there was no single sentence that swimming can be started in this age. When I tried to start swimming with my doughter, she just cried and did not allow me anything. In this age, children often don't allow to wash their hair. Of course, such children don't want to be immersed in water. May be there can be some recommendations for such children but they are not in this book.

Something like "dont't buy this book if your child is older than 6 months" should be mentioned in introduction or in amazon description but it is not.
Of course, there is a word " baby"  in the name of a book. But I thought that this method, similarly as with reading, can be started at any age. Probably many parents spend their money on book which they can not use.



Concerning updates in the newest GD books.

I purchased my books 5 months ago from amazon.co.uk.
" How to multiply..."  is copyrighted from 2005.

May be there are some updates but they might be very minor and unsignificant.

In chapter about the reading, there is about the use of that strange paper size. Like every other paper size is poisonous. But now, everyone is using A4. Why not?

There is even a comment on use of stencils (who will use them in the age of computers?)  but there is not anything about the use of computers. Well, here is said that you can use computer for printing. But computer is something more than just a printer.
So, this book still is (and will be) half century old.


In general, I think that GD method is great. But it was published in sixties and have not much changed from that. And it is OK. Other authors continue his work.

It is as like as with photography. In sixties, there were black and white photos which were developed manually. Nowdays, if we want to make good pictures, we use basic recomendations from old times but we don't need to follow all the recomendations on how to manually develop pictures in bathroom, in red light

Hi,
as I was in DD seminar in Latvia half year ago, I can also exchange my opinion.

After that seminar, there was also a lot of disappointment in LV parenting forum. Mothers wich are doing GD system for years and have done wonders with their challenged children were disappointed because they did not hear anything new for them. There was also disappointment among people which listened to translation because sometimes it was very bad.

I was very satisfied. Before this event, I was very negative about IAHP at all. My opinion (which I got from books of child psychologists)  was that teaching a child to read before 4 years can harm.

This seminar changed my mind totally. I started to look at my child in antoher way, I started to speak in another way, and I found that the best way to stop baby crying is to teach him. I purchased books.

I think this seminar was about the introduction to IAHP system. It's aim was to make an interest among parents which don't know anything about early education. It's aim was to convince. If you want to convince someone, you must speak in a very simple way, with very few facts
So, some parents will allways be dissapointed. But I think that it is more important to convince as many people as possible, about the importance of early education. Later, they will find their answers on their own


(But I agree that there was something wrong with a seminar attended by Trinity papa.)

WINK to LEARN,
thanks for coming here!

My question is - how much there is in one disc?
I mean, is there one game or several games, or something to watch for some hours? If my child will get it - will she get fun and education for few weeks? Or it is something to work for several months or years?


and thanks Kimba for your question, now I know that I am not in a hurry for this type of products

Thank you for this discussion.
Karmas to Joha, Ayesha and mtb999.
You are wonderful!

And than, if you don't have Little Reader.


open powerpoint
make it in "outline"
(in the left side there are two buttons - slides and outline)

copy one row (from Allah to Salma, for example) to one powerpoint slide.

and put "enters" between the words. You will get one word per slide.

es rādu krāsiņas (to sīce prasa pašu pirmo), tad viņa pati pieprasa tauriņus un dažreiz vēl pingvīnus. pēdējā laikā mums ir teletūbiji (tos ieliku iekš stāsti un rīmes, angliski) un mumini. no atvilkajiem katru reizi kaut ko citu.  vakar novilku baru ar gleznotājiem un rādu tos.
tad es poverpointā sarakstu plikus tekstus, kur katrā slaidā ir pa vienam vārdam, un rādu tos. tādus tekstus kā "Lelde sēž pie galda. Lelde sēž krēsliņā. Lelde spēlējas ar lelli. Lellei ir galva, kājas ....".
esmu diezgan necītīga, rādu 1 - 2 reizes dienā.

ko skatās tavējais?

tu gan esi čakla māte! es gandrīz katru dienu ieskatos - palasu diskusijas, skatos, kā punkti aug. skatāmies pārsvarā manas prezentācijas.  pagājušonedēļ laukos redzējām tauriņu, tas bija bērzu raibenis (esmu no prezentācijas iemācījusies), un sīce teica - abenis

Thanks, Shuki

Yesterday when here was discussion about Tolstoy and literacy,
I remembered vedas - sacred texts of India.
Vedas were a huge amount of poetry. I don't remember how many thousands of words were there, but something much more than several Bibles. Brahmans learned vedas without books. They learned not only texts, but also intonations, and any indent was unadmissable. In this way, vedas were kept for many centuries.

in this light, literacy is not a superiour skill. it is just a shortcut to the laziness of mind    

and who knows which skills are higher and more development-giving than others   we just try our best

KL,
you asked about the perfect pitch
look in this site, it changed my mind
http://www.perfectpitchpeople.com/Links/

Somewhere in this site I found that perfect pitch is 4 times more common among speakers of "musical languages" like Mandarin. But now I can not find this text again. 



HH and DadDude,
for me you both are right because you gave me interesting information.

Concerning " music education is not" , for me it was just a rethorics to keep my interest, and it succeeded

But my personal oponion is that musical ability is something very natural. It's borders we can study both in our society and also among remote populations which don't know notes. And musical literacy and piano playing is not a goal. It is just one of the many possible ways how to open our natural abilities

babysitter is another option if you don't like daycare. the cheapest option is another mother who is living at home with her child, and can take care also for your child, for moderate price. check your local advertisment website.

One more question.

In GD books, teaching with paper cards is adviced.
Nowdays, we use computer slideshows and other resources.
With computers, we can make our sessions more attractive, and increase the amount of information. We can show, for example, 50 slides instead of just 5 cards, and a child still enjoys it. What are your opinion and advices about this? I mean, the increased amount of information in one session, and the use of computers.

[is it possible to avoid it with my child]

Hi, DD was in Latvia half year ago, and that was my first introduction with this system at all. Therefore, I just wondered about everything, and did not have any questions.
Karma to you

Later I got some questions. The most important is:
about the development of vision.

In our family, we all are short-sighted. (Parents and grandparents.) We started to wear glasses at age 8 - 11.
What are the possible causes of short sight and is it possible to avoid it with my child (2 years). Until now, doctor says that everyting is OK. But I am sure that if my doughter will wear glasses than people will blame our early education for it.

my doughter is using my body as a crawling track. I think there are some possibilities