saņēmos, kaut arī man kauns par manu briesmīgo angļu valodu! Pastāsti, ko Tu dari un cik tālu esi tikusi!

es esmu iesācēja, sāku pirms pāris mēnešiem, rādu pašuzrakstītus vārdus poverpointā, mazliet arī sarkanās bumbiņas (kopš dažām dienām gan rādu programmu no šejienes), paštaisītus un no šejienes novilktus poverpointus. daru to apmēram reizi dienā, bet diezgan ilgi, jo sīce visu laiku prasa vēl.

tu no calis.lv ?

Dear Administrators,
we are several Latvian mothers here; we meet in another forum, but we would be glad to have our own Board  because it is nice to be here   
And also for downloads, we put our slideshows in Foreign language -> Other.
I am going to upload several more files, and other mothers too

Could you, please, make our own Latvian Language Board, our Latvian section for downloads, and move our Latvian files from "other" to Latvian. Thanking in advance! 

I have allways been a bit absent-minded, and it did not change during the pregnancy .
But for me, pregnancy was something like a falling in love. I was in euphoria!
And it is well investigated, how some brain functions are being switched off by love hormons

My personal opinion is that everything that child likes is good for him. (Except modern things like hamburgers and colas - evolution has no experience with them.)

Child likes early education because he/she needs it.
Child also likes hugs of mum. And scientists approved that hugs are crucially necessary for children development (see http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep05102183.pdf , John Bowlby and other).
Children like cradling - and scientists show that it is necessary for physical development.
My child also likes to watch other children. So I think it is beneficial. And there are some things to learn from other children. For example, to crawl

In old times, people lived several families together. They still do so in primeval areas. So it is the most natural way how to live, and we are adapted to it.

And my another opinion is that the safe attachment and self-confidence are much more important than encyclopedic knowledge. Often, self-confident people are much more successful and happier than clever people. I also had rather  wrong childhood, and I had a depression for most of my life. So, the safe attachment is priority for me and my child; knowledge is just an additional resource; it is not a priority.

During the last 20 - 30 years, there is much research  on child psychology going on. Doman does not research children psychology. He also gives no references on attachment psychologists. Doman is not an authority on children socialization and psichology, He also does not pretend to be. He only gives few hints that support the natural parenting.

Thanks! Great program. My doughter was watching it like an ad on tv.
(I started teaching math 2 weeks ago and we are somewhere between 10 and 20 dots.)

Unfortunately, there are some problems for me.

1. I want to switch the voice off. And speak the numerals myself. I can switch the voice off but than I can not count the dots. Small numerals somewhere on the dot slides (like it is in powerpoints in slideshow library) would be useful.

We are Latvians. There are no spoken language packs (or how to call it) in Latvian. There are many small nationalities in the world. Some of them have just some thousands or hundreds or tens of speakers; may be they also want to use little math Computers will never speak these languages.

So, the option "voice off, numerals on" is necessary for me.


2. I could not install the program from my profile because of limited access to some folders. Than I installed it as an administrator. And I can not run the program from my profile. Some files are stored in folders which I usually don't need to access. If necessary, I can research it later.


3. What I expected from this program.
I work with my doughter irregulary. And I always forget where I stopped last time.
I hoped that some program could save what I have done.
Some protocol.
For example, program says: "18" is shown 12 times, you need 3 more.
It is my dream 

For some personal reasons I want to teach birds and their voices to my doughter. There are up to 100 common species.

I have *.ppt files with bird pictures and voices. And here my problem
starts. To teach songs of particular birds, one second is not enough. Usually,
sound files last for 10 - 20 seconds. Some birds have several songs.
Dryocopus martius has 5 different songs and all are important to distinguish
this species. In my slideshow, first (the most common) song is started automatically, others I can open by clicking.

I can show such a bird no more than twice; than my child says "bye bye".
Do I want too much at the same time? What would you advice to me?

For most of birds, voice is more important than look. Many of them we newer see but their voices are everywere.

I myself do not know these species very well. I hope that my child will help me to learn them! I enjoy watching my slideshows and listening all the songs of every bird

google yourself
http://www.google.lv/search?hl=lv&q=%22+baby+walkers%22++benefits+mental&btnG=Mekl%C4%93t&meta=
....  Because baby walkers enable precocious locomotion in very young, otherwise prelocomotor infants, walker experience might be conceptualized in terms of early enrichment. However, walker devices prevent visual access to the moving limbs by design. Therefore, prelocomotor walker experience may be conceptualized in terms of early deprivation, reminiscent of that created in a classic series of animal experiments on the critical role of visual feedback in developing motor systems. This study analyzed motor and mental development in 109 human infants, with and without walker experience, between the ages of 6 and 15 months. Walker-experienced infants sat, crawled, and walked later than no-walker controls, and they scored lower on Bayley scales of mental and motor development. Significant effects of walker type, frequency, and timing of walker exposure were observed. Considering the injury data along with the developmental data, the authors conclude that the risks of walker use outweigh the benefits.

......  All of the infants scored within established norms, the researchers say. Nevertheless, those who used newer-style walkers sat upright, crawled, and walked later than infants who had never used a walker. Infants who used older-style walkers learned to sit and walk at about the same age as the no-walker group, but they learned to crawl at about the same age as the children who used the newer-style walkers.

Dear mothers, I want to tell you about my new method.

I started some teaching 3 months ago but stopped after few attempts because it was boring for my doughter. I repeated some 3 or 4 times but it really was boring also for me, and maybe I was too serious. At the beginning I used cards, then powerpoint.
These 5-word sets were boring for me, so I know I was not very successful in expressing the artifitial joy. I felt like telling lies.

Twoo weeks ago (while I was reading discussions on this website) I got an idea.
I made powerpoint file with short sentences and pictures. One word per page. One picture per one or two sentences.
Since that day, my child is watching the text with great interest, and is allways asking for more.
I added also dot cards.

Word set like "boot, dog, ball, fly, sheep" is boring, boring.
Story "Lelde (my doughter's name) has boot. Dog has ball. Ball is rolling. Sheep says booo. Lelde is very sweet." (we speak Latvian) is fun. Lelde likes to wach the sentences about herself, her parents and toys. So we get enough fun also for dot cards.

I think, this is an upgraded version of Doman's method   Starting with sentences and pictures and not with single words. Nowadays it is also easy to include pictures. I can include sentences of our ewerydays communication. I also write down what Lelde says about the pictures, and her first sentences.

Hi, I am very happy that I found this site!
(sorry for my strange English)

I was very negative about teaching babies to read. Few months ago Douglas Doman visited Riga (Latvia, NW Europe), with short lecture. I went to this event just for fun, to know better what I am criticizing    

After that, of course, I am a crazy doman - mom. I purchased books. As I am also lazy, I searched for flashcards, and so I am here. I'll try to get whole community from calis.lv here  

Thanks, Nikolett

I measured   
my child is small
her arms are just 20 cm long, and it is almost impossible to keep a book more than 25 cm away from her nose   
bet she is not trying to put her face to paper.

at age of 1 year, we visited oculist which said that her vision (+1) fully conforms to her age. Doctor also adviced landscape watching. We did it, but now it seems that my girl has learned everything about our courtyard, and there is not anything to watch.
But this morning I found a new resource. We count cats, birds and cars   

I will try finger paints   

Thanks so much, Nikolett.

Now I have much to think about because books are among my doughters favourite toys, and I was very proud that she can distinguish (and comment)  very small details on the pictures.
Was your sister allowed to draw?


my personal opinion is that the "traditional" non-doman teaching to read might harm the vision because children are tought to read small letters only; vision is not developed for that, and is strained.

Thanks, momnidhi

Concerning parks, we have winter here, with deep snow, and my child refuses to go any single step on snowy surface
but it will change soon

Doctor said that very useful for the development of visual pathways ir the watching of remote objects like landscapes, birds  etc.

Some psychologists also think that short-sight is caused by psychological reasons - child refuses to view something of the surrounding; some untrueness in relationships, in family. who knows ... I hope to cure this with our deep attachment.

Dear brill-mothers,
I have some questions about the vision.
About the "short sight" or myopia.
(This is my first post)

I am shortsighted and my husband too.
We both started to wear glasses at the age of 8 - 10.
I am crazy reader and my husband is not.

It is often heard that short sight is caused by excessive reading.
Or by TV and PC (my doughter love to watch slideshows).

Currrently, my doughters (1.5 years) vision is ok.
Can early reading or reading at all impair the vision?
Is it possible to avoid the short sight if both parents (and all grand-parents) have it?
What spoils the vision? 

I would like to avoid the situation that after years people will say "you spoiled your doughters vision vith your early education".


(sorry for my incorrect English.)