Hi allthatiam,

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Дорогие родители! Вот и осень на пороге, но это не повод расстраиваться --

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Thank you! This pack is beautiful and my boys like it a lot -- perfect fit 

I dont think you can buy it separately, but you can upgrade to Deluxe (https://user.brillkids.com/onlinestore/menu-upgrade.php) and with upgrade you will receive Pattern Phonics, flip cards, 25 reader books ( beautiful!) that come with the curriculum and a parent planner.

Congratulations with your new daughter! I would try and look at the reaction. generally I was doing a lot of reading, singing, listening to the classical music, sensory stimulation, and visual stimulation with black/white/red flash cads at that age. Then at about 3 months we started with Little Reader, not with the whole lesson, but a part of it, with frequent breaks, then about two weeks later I added Little math, then Little Musician, and then second language. We kept every single lesson very short and fast going, with lots of cuddles and praise.

You do not need to do the way I did it, I am just sharing what worked for me. You can start with Little Reader lessons only and do it a few times  a day shorter lessons, keeping it fun and inspiring and stopping before she wants to stop.

We are always here to answer any question, there is always one of the parents in this community that probably went through some similar situations. So feel free to come back often and ask questions.

Looking forward to hear from you!

That is so exciting, momagain!

On a large scale, you are among a very few who starting that early!! And your new son is certainly blessed to have such incredible parents!

Overall I looked at our EL journey as a way of connecting with my children, responding to their needs and treating them as little individuals they are  I have not even though about it much as a learning, or scheduling, but as a way of life, constantly talking to them and exposing them to new experiences.

Wow, you are giving an amazing gift to your new son!

I have no idea to be honest. But we use regular sand from an ocean beach ( the rough kind). From what I know the rougher it is, the safer it is. You do not want to have it very fine for the danger of inhalation. I also spray our send lightly from the water sprayer before play, so it is a little dump, that way it is heavier, funner to play with and there is no danger of dust. We also add some cinnamon to our sand box, which keeps all the bugs away and has a disinfectant effect ( plus it has a pleasant smell  )

Hope it helps somewhat

Momagain, congratulations!

It depends what you mean by "starting"

We started listening to Music, narrating things, poetry and reading before birth. When my kids were born we would continue those, adding using the potty from day 1, narrating everything we were doing or observing and tactile stimulation ( soft, hard, cold, warm, etc). We would do some elements of Doman Physically Superb Program at that time as well.

As far as Little Reader, Little Math, LMs and languages, we started at around 4 months. We have not added any other educational videos till about 6 or 7 months, and very little for that.

We also did a lot of visual stimulation at about 4-8 weeks

Hope these ideas help That is what I've been doing with 3 of my children.

Hi Emsmummy !

Congratulations, that is quite an accomplishment  ! And of course a great milestone to celebrate 

You did not mention which course you have finished, -- Math, Music, English, Mandarin, French, etc

Let us know, and I am sure other parents will chime in with advice!

We do not own TV, and never watched TV around the kids. Our kids are 5.5, 4 and 1.5, and they come up with so many fun games and activities to do, they love reading books ( literally for hours and hours) and are very physically active.

We show them short educational videos each day, but it does not take that much time, and we only show videos with high educational content, not for the sake of watching but rather as an aid in learning.

Welcome to our International Community here, kidsislandnur7! Looking forward to hear more about your family and your Early Learning adventures!

Yes, Tamsyn is correct, Little Musician is meant to be Music Literacy, Ear/Vocal/Rhythm Training and Music Appreciation Program. It was not made for learning piano. Since you can start with the program years before child will be able to start with piano training, it provides invaluable tool, and can lay a good solid foundation before any instrument instruction.

For example, piano is not an instrument of choice at this point of time in our family, but through using Little Musician we gave quite good musical foundation to our children, our oldest has confirmed perfect pitch, all of our 3 children quite familiar with composers and classical music and can name many of classical compositions by hearing a few moments of them. They clearly have appreciation for and like classical music, which in many ways due to being familiar with it through Little Musician and Themes to Remember Programs.

I would say, Little Musician is unique in that way. And I like the fact that it is not tied just to the piano ( as most of the programs out there), but in each lesson children learn their notes, played by different instruments, learn about composers, instruments, styles, periods. They introduced to rhythm, musical notation, solfegio. It is a perfect fit for our family, and we are using it already with the 3rd kid 

Ted Lundgren,

You do not need a keyboard to use Little Musician. If you would like to have a keyboard for your daughter to practice the notes she is learning in Little Musician curriculum, it would work with any keyboard or piano, really.

When you say your keyboard does not work with Little Musician, what exactly do you mean? Kindly let us know what you are trying to do, so we can help you!

Not sure about applications, but you can get Kindle for iPad, for free, and have access to everything you would with Kindle!

PokerDad 100% agree.