Hi KL,

I wish BrillKids the best of luck! I think your programs are great! I have LR but I have not yet purchased LM. Now I am priced out of the market. I cannot afford LM even with the current father's day discount for $250. I think a retail price of $720 for LR and $600 for LM is way too high. Just my opinion- I could not buy LR at this price point and I am glad I already have it! 

Once again- I really like the product! But I have to criticize BrillKids for the decision to price the software at such a high price. I don't think I can get any of my friends or neighbors to buy this product at these prices.

Good Luck,
Eric F

[THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!]

The prices you are charging for LR and LM are incredibly HIGH! I could not possibly recommend to my friends to purchase this software at these inflated prices! $300 and $250 for the current discounted LR and LM with normal retail prices of $720 and $600. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! I am an MBA student and I believe you are pricing yourself out of the market. Plus you are doing a disservice to all those families that cannot possible afford this type of program, nor can they afford the monthly payment plan either.

I really hope you reconsider on the price points for this software tool! I think the software should be offered like before at a reasonable price and THEN you can charge for premium material that brillkids authors or premium material that other third party developers put together. I am interested in buying premium material but I would like a chance to fully preview the material first before I buy it.

Sincerely,
Eric F

YOU GUYS ARE NUTS! $300 for little reader and curriculum? I would like to see a lot more detail of this curriculum before I spend $300! What is going to happen to the "old" little reader? And our ability to download and share material?

I think you are going off the deep end! Charging WAY TOO MUCH for this material. May I remind you that STARFALL CAMP WEBSITE is FREE!

In my opinion you are ruining this program by being incredibly GREEDY!

Sincerely,
Eric F

Links to the 6 month and 12 month curriculum are not working?

Hi Octaviaorca and others,

Has anyone figured out the words sung in the "D" Dinasor dance song? There are a few words I can't distinguish in the song...Like the word right after "T-Rex"... We love Starfall! My son is 21 months old and have been using it since we started YBCR about 4 months ago...

I don't really see the conflict in teaching him letters or words...I biggest thing about Domain that I think applies is that the baby has so much capacity for "new stuff"...Don't bore him or her...keep giving them "new stuff"...We went fast throught YBCR and keep skipping around- but he got pretty bored of it quickly...The songs are what he still has interest in...

Thanks,
Eric

Thanks! Hope they can convert them! My wife is Chinese and we want to teach our son not only English and Chinese but Spanish and maybe German...Spanish won't be too hard since we can get the neighbor girls to read to him...German will be more difficult since we will need to get his uncle and aunt to do the recording...It would be so convenient to just be able to buy the e-book as a self reader. Thanks, E

Are these just e-books or do they have an audio reading content- so they can be automatically "read" in another language...This would be great help for those parents that don't speak or read other languages and want to teach their children those languages?

Hi Jandy,

Thanks for the links- I showed my wife last night and she will look for some of those DVD's...Tommy had fun just watching the clip on the website and sung Xi Gao...after we were finished. He gets exposure to Mandarin at his day care, but I want them to start using DVD's or flash cards. My wife said the characters were formal Mandarin and not informal that is used on mainland China. Maybe someday on a trip to China we can have our babies meet for a play day! My companies factory is just outside of Shenzhen. I am just getting all of Doman's books so I will need to catch up...I have little reader installed and will do a session with him tonight or this weekend.

Hi KL,
Yes it was a very scary time- My son Tommy just arrived in the Sichuan province 1 day before the big quake- my wife's family was very lucky! Her hometown suffered damage but no collapsed buildings and only a few deaths, she lost a great uncle and many, many of her cousins just narrowly escaped and lost their homes. They were only 30 minutes outside of Minyang which suffered tens of thousands of casualties. They had to live on the street for almost 3 weeks before leaving the area.  Thank you for asking!

Good Training!

Thanks,
Eric

Hi Jandy,

My wife is from Sichuan Province and speaks Mandarin and a few local dialects. We want to teach our Son Mandarin. I am going to purchase the Little Reader so we can start to customize our program. My wife can do the audio pronunciation. But if you have something already made up- it would be great to get a copy. I will send you a PM with my email. Once we have some Chinese flashcards and video made I hope to post them up to this website so we can share them.

It is funny how here in the US there is a debate on phonics versus site reading and memorization and how they say site reading is so bad! Well the way I look at Chinese it is ALL SITE READING! I have been told you need to learn 5000 characters to just be able to read the newspaper...I hope to learn Chinese along with my son! So part of this is for me also!

Thanks,
Eric

Thanks! I figured if I can teach my dog (Labrador retriever) to the AKC Master Level...I better be able to teach my son to the PhD level! 

It is funny how you start dog training at 49 days old and the systems are well put together! But our society as a whole has not emphasized early learning and development...After I watch the Your Baby Can Read video- I felt so stupid! I did all my dogs training at an early age but I did not do enough with my son... I read to him and played with him every day...He can talk in two languages when he was 10 months old- but I did not show him any written words...It makes so much sense!

Thanks!
Eric

Hi Everyone,

I just purchased the Your Baby Can Read video and flash card set from an infomercial and just found this site today- I ordered Doman's books last night from Amazon. My son has had a pretty good introduction for a complete novice- I am sure he would be reading right now if I had started him at 2-3 months. Since my wife is Chinese her mom came to the US to help when he was 3 months old and between my mom and hers and my wife and I- he has developed with good early motor skills and language skills in both English and Chinese. My mom told us we had to make him crawl or he could only use half his brain- he wanted to walk and not crawl so we did crawl training at lunch everyday for 15 minutes for 2 months...He started walking at age 9 months- he is a world traveler on his first visit to China. I had him walking in the hotel lobby in Hong Kong walking up and down the stairs- he thought it was so much fun! Until last week he did not know any written words outside of the alphabet- he already can sing his ABC's and several other nursery songs. He already has about 10 words down that he has read to me before looking at the picture either on flash cards or the video in just 1 week. When he is interested he can repeat the whole video- we do it as a family together to make it as interactive as possible. But I quickly realize I need customization- there are so many things I want to do- Like a number and name of the presidents then the picture- he already knows Obama. I also want to start him on Chinese characters- which will be very hard to learn according to my wife!

So any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. I am really excited to see his progress- we thought he was ahead of other kids but realize he may be behind some of the early learners- I just want him to have fun and hope that he will be reading English by the time he is 2...

Eric