My daughter is only a year old. I have been reading to her since she was born, but it took until she was about 8 months old before she showed any interest (and that was mainly to eat the books and later to try turning the pages) A week ago in church she took the books off her toddler friends, sat down on the floor and started "reading" them turning the pages well. She is also listening to a full story at night now before bed which is quite an achievement considering a few weeks back we would manage only a page or two at a time.

I also read her bath books while she is bathing and ask her to point to something on the pages while I read them to her. Today when I read about a character laughing, we "discussed" laughing and she laughed with me, so she's definitely starting to understand that a book has a story.

I have made her some flashcards, but am not too sure how to use them with a child who cannot yet say the words. I taught her "mummy" and the next day "dog" and then placed the two words side by side and asked her to point to "mummy" at which stage she put her finger on my knee. When asked to point to the dog she wandered off to try to find the dog... not too sure she gets the print idea though. She is still young so I am not too bothered and am just telling her what the words say again with only one word up at a time, but would love to hear if anyone has any ideas of where I should go from here or if I should continue with teh flashcards without knowing what she is taking in - how do you know how fast to go then?

Sorry to ask questions on a post about our experiences.

I have only just started using Little Reader, but wondered whether all the playlists use different fonts for some of the words - I find the narrow printed font rather hard on the eyes, whereas the more bold font is much easier to read. I have not yet figured out how to change the colouring, but will try that when I find out how to and see if this improves things. I do feel however that it would be better if a single type of font was used in a particular playlist - can this be changed to do this?

Hi, its nice to find these forums.

I have a 9.5 month old daughter and am hoping to have a second child in the near future. My daughter is the love of my life. I work halfdays at the moment so my daughter is in a nursery school during the mornings and home with me in the afternoons. My family has quite a history of learning to read early and I would like to teach my own daughter to read early too.

I look forward to getting to know other parents on these forums.

Bronwyn