Thank you Wennjongal!  You made me think about a lot of things.  I learned to read at 4 before I even entered to kindergarten and nobody ever gave me one lesson.  My mother noticed one day that I could read, but she didn't know how.  Maybe just watching my older brother, who was only 7 (and didn't like books at all) made me learn.  I was a very good reader during my childhood and adolescence.  My first language is spanish and when I went to school I received 2 english classes a week for several years and that's it.  When I finished high school none of my classmates could speak or read or understand much english but I did.  I never took additional english classes, just watching TV I learnt a lot.  Now my english is not perfect, I know, but it allows me to participate in this forum. 
My child is doig well I think.  When I read about other parents and their children I always remember myself every child is unique and has different interest or abilities. He is constantly talking all day.  His vocabulary is surprising considering he is 23 months.  I can choose any word, I say it two or three times and explain what it means and the next day I can ask him something related and he instanty remembers the word. He loves music, he listen to a song once or twice and then he starts singing it.  He watched once sombody playing the piano and this week he has been "playing the piano" in his table desk while he makes the sounds.   He also likes to play the drum or the tambourine while he is singing.
He was on swimming lessons since he was 8 months and liked it very much.  Since january he has gone very little because of repeatedly ear infections since he began gonig to the nursery.  Yesterday I asked if he wanted to go into the pool and he said no, asked to go to the trampoline and said no, asked to go to the slide and said no.  Maybe he is not that into physical activities as much as "intelectual" as reading or music, because yesterday wasn't the first time he says no to those things.  But he is an expert riding his tricycle even when his feet don't touch the pedals. 
I've noticed he is shy and I was terribly shy when I was little.  If there are several kids at the playground he dosn't like it very much, but he enjoys if he is alone or maybe with just one child.  We'll see.
Beyond LR or flashcards, I'm always talking with him, explaining things we see, we play a lot and I try him experiment things with his own hands and senses. 
I will continue reading with my son when he wants and I'm not going to push him to things he doesn''t like.  I want him to have fun and enjoy the process.
Maria

 

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Thank you for the recomendations.  I already showed him all the animals and their sounds and he can repeat a lot of them.  Surprisingly, animals are not his favorites, and he is not interested in dinosaurs.  He recognizes the great mayority if he sees a picture and he says the name outloud but I don't know if he can read.  He already saw the most popular and familiar words in little reader, perhaps 150 or 200 words and i think maybe he already knows them and is bored of them.  The problem is that he is not interested in the new ones.  I'll keep trying without pushing him, and i'm going to try other options with my imagination.
Than you
Maria

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I live in Colombia, and we speak spanish and I´m trying to teach my kid to read.  My son is 23 months and I started Glen Doman method with flash cards at 9 mo. At some point I noticed he didn´t pay much attention so I stopped for a while. 10 months ago I discovered LR and at first he was very excited about everything, and asked me three or four times a day to show him the words and he always wanted more and more.  We did 5 playlist three times a day for three months and we used to changed weekly the groups of words and what he most enjoyed were those with word + picture + sound.   We were doing very well but after three months, he didn´t want to watch the computer and every time I said let´s go and watch some words he said NO! 
He has never liked the TV and is not interested in cartoons, or anything similar or videos of any kind and I don´t want to insist because I don´t want to create the habit of watching TV.  I tried baby Einstein videos a few times and he is not interested either.  Besides, I don´t find them very special.
What he most likes are books.  He has like 10 books I bought  when he was a few months old with pictures or drawings of different things and the name below.  For example parts of the body, fruits, vegetables, the house, the garden, the bathroom, transportation, etc. One theme for page.  The images are very little, 8, 10 or 15 per page, and the books are not big.  He recognizes almost 100% of the images in the books and if he doesn´t  know he ask me pointing the image so I can say the name out loud.  He takes the book and starts reading page to page naming everything he sees.  The letters are very small so I don´t know if he pays attention to them, but he is amazing.  He absolutely love those books.  His vocabulary is incredible, he repeats every word I say and immediatly memorizes it.  He is using long sentences and also sings 6 o 7 songs and every body can understand him.  He loves music. Loves puzzles too.
Since I noticed he didn´t like te computer, I started making books myself.  I buy a big sheet of moderately thick and shinny white paper, make it cut  in a book size and make two perforations in the left side of each sheet.  That is the material.  Then every magazine I see, or even in the newspaper, I look for a picture, cut it and glue it on a sheet.  I write the name on the back with a red marker and in the next sheet I write a simple sentence related to the picture in big cases.  Every book has 5 pictures with the words on the back and five sentences.Then, I put 2 laces through the perforations on the left side of the sheets and make a knot and there is a book.  For example if I have a picture of a kid giving a kiss to his mommy, I write Kiss on the back and in the next sheet I write :  the boy gives a kiss to his mommy.    Now I have made more than 200 books like those.  He loves them and he likes reading them several times a day.  He looks for me in the house , takes my hand and take me to the sofa where we always read and ask me to read the home made books.  I give him 5 books every week and read them  two or three times a day during the week and every week I change them. I buy a lot of "normal" books for him, but he still prefer the ones mommy makes o the 10 little books with figures and the name below.
During the last week he doesn´t concentrate easily.  After one book, he leaves and go for another activity.  He distracts very easily and is very mobile.  I am worried. 
I sill ask him if he wants to watch the words and pictures in the computer and he says NOOOO!
If I sit him in front of the comuter and start LR, after 2 o 3 words he want to stop and ask me to stop.
The only thing he likes to watch in a screen are a few videos in you tube.  I chose 20 very popular songs for children and ocasionaly I sit him in front of the computer and he stares at it listeing to the music.  He can stay 15 o 20 minutes watching the videos.  He loves it.  When I try to show him LR he ask me for the videos.
Do you have any suggestions for me to teach my kid to read?  Those homemade books he loved, now I don´t see him very interested.
What shoul I do?  I am worried because he doesn´t like flashcards, computer or videos and now it seems that books either.

I´m a dermatologist, so I work 7 o 8 hours a day. He goes to the nursery from 8 to 12 from monday to friday and loves it.  We used to read before I went to work, then in the afternoon and before bed.  Now I don´t know what to do.

Please help me.

Mommy

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I need an extension for my Little reader license.

Thank you.

Maria Clara