For those of you having success w/teaching your baby to read what kind of protocol are you using?  Are you following Doman's suggestion of only showing the word 15 times, or are you showing it until it appears your child can recognize it (more of a YBCR format)?

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I downloaded the Little reader free trail and it stated it was for 30 days.  Everytime I open it on the right hand side is a box that says something like you have x number of days until your free trial expires.  According to that I have approximately 20 days until my free trial expires. However, today I got an e-mail saying my free trial expires in 3 days. I am confused. I want to continue using the little reader for the whole 30 day trial period and then apply whatever points I have towards purchasing it, but I don't want to be using it if I'm not supposed to. Can someone explain what the problem is?

Thanks for your imput.  I will definately need to try the shaving cream idea.  I have looked at math-u-see also and heard good reviews of it so it's good to hear another one, the sample video on their site seemed kind of boring though, so that was one thing that turned me off

I know experts say in the morning, but my little guy is not a morning person.  He needs hours to wake up and is easily frustrated until he is fully awake.  His best times are probably after his afternoon nap or right around/before lunch time.

We mainly do learning activites on the couch or at the table.  My husband and I are hoping to turn a spare room into a learning room/educational playroom, with all his learning materials and a montessorri type set-up.  The sheer amount of materials he has clutters up anywhere else and if they are not out they don't get used.

I like to teach history.  We read biographies/story of the world. My least favorite thing to teach him is math, mainly because he just is not that into it.

For those of you hoping to homeschool when do you plan to start and what program/materials do you think you will use and when do you think you will start?

If I am lucky enough to be able to homeschool I hope to use a classical curriculum based on many of the recommendations in "The Well Trained Mind". As far as specifics at least initially I am thinking about either Shiller Math or Right Start for math and transitioning into Singapore math. In addition to that just reading aloud from history books and modified versions of the classics. We already read from Story of the World, do a lot of starfall and of course do lots of tracing, cutting, coloring and reading activities.

I brought this up because I know this is a very well read and dedicated group of parents and although I am well read on this subject I would like to hear what others thoughts are. Also, I read the starting criteria as well as the initial lessons in some of the math programs and I feel like my son knows much of this already and they already seem very much on his mental level as far as ability to understand. Of course he is getting a lot of this from the Doman stuff, but I feel like learning it in another way (ie w/ manipulatives) might help even further solidify it. However, I think many people might think I am crazy for thinking about starting a kindergarten level math program with my 2.5 year old.

Anyway I'd love to hear your ideas/plans.

Everyday I go outside
And stride along the path with pride

And stop to look, should something catch my eye,
I don't want to let the wonder pass me by!

i cant walk good, i badly feel shy
People might look and wonder why

The cars zoom by, the cool wind blows

I agree that in general raw foods are the best nutritional bang for your buck  But, please keep in mind that milk is pasteurized for safety. Especially for young children.  My MIL lives on a ranch in Montana and when my son was 1.5 yrs old she gave him unpasteurized goats milk and he became very ill (along with everyone else who drank it).  My brother in law threw up roughly 30 times in one night. Blaise couldn't keep anything down and nearly had to be hospitalized. Raw milk can carry diseases like Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria. Here is what the FDA has to say about it: http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/rawmilk.html. Please just keep in mind that although raw vegies, nuts, fruits and other foods may be good unpasteurized milk can be dangerous or deadly.

Terrific tamales taste tremendously toasty to trendy teenagers taking turns timing tormented toads tumbling towards two tumultuous tigers. This totally tames the tastebuds that tremble, thinking, three ticklish turkey throws trick trucks till tulips tango timidly truly thankful. There thieves took Timothy's turquoise toupee trousers that totaled thousands to Texas taxies. Thankfully, Timothy told teletubbies to

Once upon a time, Santa Clause wandered into my garden and dropped his cookies on blue carpet that my sacks of beads fell onto. I picked pickled parsnips from Papa's popular place, then danced deliriously for my baby panda and he got slept under the Christmas tree.

Whenever reindeer passes through the lovely supermarket OVERFLOWING with  laughter throw tomatoes at grandpa giggling away.

We all stopped when suddenly George shouted,

"HO HO HO! Oh, goodness!" Apparently the facetious elves played jolly

upon finishing one cookie!

Hurray!

Rudolph pranced joyfully while Santa drank eggnog and sang a song

loudly while wrapping presents!

Texaslady, I'd love to get more serious about making more encyclopedic knowledge cards.  It would be great if we could collaborate by sharing POIs.  What would be the even better is if we could get like 8 other people to also each commit to creating the material for one set of cards a week, each in a different category.  Imagine the kinds of resources we'd have available then.

What I do is I organize the presentations based onto which encyclopedic knowledge category they would fall into, mainly using the pictures as bits without the programs of intelligence.  So for instance if it was about the 7 continents I would put it into geography and that way if I procure POIs later I can add them.  I have however uploaded some of my encyclopedic knowledge database:

This is the planets with 10 programs researched for each planet for making flashcards:
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=2815

This is the same thing only I have read each of the 10 programs for each planet to be played as the picture audio in a rotation fashion:
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=3048

This is for paintings by DaVinci once again w/10 researched programs on each card (for flashcard use):
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=2973

And this is sided shapes starting at triangle and moving up to pentadecagon (for flashcard use):
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=2837

I actually have many more, the problem is I save each picture as a single file (all in google docs) and each set of 10 programs of intelligence as a single file to keep printing and organization easy for me.  So it is quite an ordeal to combine them into one file, or to create a little reader doc for them and read/record 10 programs of intelligence for each picture.  I have been focusing instead on creating new media. However, if I have time I will try to chip away at my personal set for encyclopedic knowledge materials so I can share them with everyone.

I was wondering if there is any way to individualize the playback settings for each file?  For instance with a story I obviously want it played in order whereas with wordflash I want it randomized. I know I can go to playback mode prior to playing the file and change it but I was wondering if there was a way to save the settings for each file?

I do somehting similar though my son is older, I ask him how many goldfish he wants (he will say anything between one and 17) and then I count out that many and hand it to him. Then as he heats them I will say "oh you ate two now you have 6 (or whatever).