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We did Tweedlewink when my son was little. He is 5 now and we started on Wink. I was shocked! The memory train cards have a story that is very random, like "A chicken jumped over a house which smelled like a strawberry but was really a flower..." I can't believe how quickly my son can remember.  First I showed him 5 cards and that was easy so I started showing him 20 new cards at a time and yes, he can remember them all!  After two days, and about 4 short sessions, he is up to 100 cards. He never likes to be tested so he reads them silently & I show him the blank cards.  The only way I know he is actually doing it is because if he gets stuck he will ask what is after "the plane" and I will find the plane and help him remember the next one. I can still only remember the first line (not that I have been trying hard) so I am amazed that he can do this. 

My only complaint is that I didn't want the overview course. I get this right brain stuff and don't want to go through a huge course.  But, there are no instructions with some things. We got some zoo cards and some tiles and squares and I have no clue how to use them because the only instructions are "start here." I would think they would at least explain the activity.

I started Brillkids with my son at 22 months when I found out about it. He always loved me to read to him and had a crazy attention span. We would get 50 library books and he would pretty much sit until I got through all of them. At 4 he got glasses and started reading on his own a few days later. Now, 9 months later, he can read at least as fast as I can and he can read almost any word. His love of books has not decreased and I just don't know how to keep up with him. We have hundreds of books and I buy lots of books and magazines on eBay and go to the library frequently but I can't get enough for him to read.

The other day I got 75 library books and he would do nothing else until he read them all, which he did in about 8 hours of being awake. He doesn't like to re-read things frequently because he memorizes them all the first time. He can read paperback chapter books, the ones with pictures every few pages, but he still prefers picture books. I even get new books and save them and he negiotiates with me to try to earn the new books faster.

I am so overwhelmed and I feel like I am not giving him all that he needs but I really don't know how to get more material for him. Anyone have advice or in a similar situation?

I didn't read everything above, but my son got glasses at 4 and started immediately reading right after that.  He is almost 4 1/2 and at a second grade level (yeah Brillkids!). 

I just read the Bates Method, by William Bates.  There is a natural way to get rid of glasses.  I am working on it for me and trying to help him because I don't want him to have glasses his whole life.  I got him some pinpoint glasses and I can see much, much better with them on.  All this is still in the works, but there are natural ways to imporve eyesight that do not involve glasses.

Make cooler flashcards.  My son is 4 and he loves dinos and bugs so I make flashcards on those.  He can read so I will do a sentence on each card and make a story about him and bugs.  If you get creative I bet you can keep your child interested and teach at her level.

I just wanted to say that we found Readeez and we love it!  There are tons on Vimeo and You Tube and you can set up play lists so that they all play.  I just wish there were more of them.  We have memorized all these and want more!

We just got an ipad and I'm so excited about the learning possibilities but overwhelmed with the app choices.  What apps do your kids like?  I saw how you can use Splashtop to run Little Reader but we want more!  Both my 1 year old and 4 year old love it already.

I haven't heard of Readeez, it looks interesting and I'm going to have him check it out. 

I do need to be patient.  I know several families who homeschool but no one in real life who does this stuff and is attempting to homeschool a 4 year old who will be happy to discuss evolution with you.  No one I know seems to be able to tell me what will happen next because their kids are only slightly older and not at all in the same place. 

I talked to my SIL yesterday.  Her daughter is in public school kindergarten and she is reading about where my son is.  I was happy to hear that he is going through a normal stage but a bit shocked that kids aren't supposed to read more than that when they are done with kindergarten. 

I also tried letting him read new PowerPoints that I downloaded for my daughter.  He can read animal names and colors and was reading some sentences; he read to me for over 1/2 hour.  All of this was new so I know he was reading and not just that it was memorized. Maybe he learned to read on the computer and he feels more comfortable reading here than in books.  I'm going to make him a few PowerPoint books now and see if he will read those.

Yes, we got him glasses about a month ago and they really help. I think he wasn't reading because he was having a hard time seeing.  He insists on wearing his glasses all the time and I think they are making reading easier.

My son just turned 4 and we have been doing Brillkids/YBCR since he was 20 months.  We haven't been doing it much lately but I've been waiting for him to read.  He would recognize a word here and there but I was waiting for him to actually read. About a month ago he got glasses and his reading exploded.  I will get a library book and he will just read a sentence out of it as fast as I can. He reads things off signs and websites and I love nothing better than to hear him read.

My issue is that he won't read to me nor will he let me use my finger to point out words when I read to him.  He reads when he wants to but I don't think he has the confidence to read a whole book, but I know that he could.  He really doesn't like to be tested so I am not pushing himt.  He looks at books all day by himself and sometimes he will say that he recognized the words but most of the time he says he just looks at the pictures.  He has a 1 year old sister who is into everything right now and I would love for him to be able to read books by himself because I just can't sit and do it as much as I want to right now.

My question is how does he go from where he is now to actually reading whole books?  Is there anything I need to do?  I showed him a word flash powerpoint yesterday and he said that he knew all those words. He is also good at sounding out words.  I guess I'm not sure what helped him the most so I don't know what to do more of. 

yes, I'm sure it will.  My son is 3 1/2 and he knows his letters very well and has for a long time but he still sometimes confuses those letters.  He isn't reading yet, except for a few small words like cat and dog.  I thought I read that they wouldn't start reading until they stopped confusing those letters but that it is something that will come in time and has to do with them seeing things as pictures.  Sorry, I wish I could remember better but I do know it is normal.

add some magnets to them?  Ask your child what he/she would like to do with them?

I read a book about this and it is really cool.  I did less than I wanted to because I was pregnant with #2 when I discovered it.  I used a drum and drummed a few times for her.  We were very connected, I could think about her and get her to kick.  Now, she is 8 months old and I totally know what she is thinking.  She also never cried.  My 3 1/2 year old cries more than the baby does.  I've never met a happier baby.  She can also say 7 words already. 

I also have one, I'm in FL