Hi guys,

I'm sorry I'm a little confused here. First time to redeem a coupon because I purposely kept my point for Arabic Language Curriculum.
The Arab Language Curriculum is on discount right now at 10%.  Coupon is 10%. So, I get 20% discount?
I'm thinking of buying Little Musician too so I really hope I get the 25% discount on the coupons   

Hi,
I get to know about signing baby when I first watched the movie "Meet the Fockers". At that time I wasn't married nor I have a baby yet but it really motivated me to teach my future baby to sign which I did with my girl. I saw one time on Oprah this 'gifted' woman 'understands' baby language by their cooing sound, I got worried a bit because how on earth I could learn that! Then, "Meet the Fockers" saved my day  The signing did help me (and my baby) a lot. Although, people at the supermarket might think I'm crazy, guess who's smiling now  She picks up 'milk' at 4mo or earlier and then I never take my eyes off her in case she is saying something. I flash cards and do the sign with her. If no cards, I flash the things or point and then do the sign. With spoken words. When my girl talk non stop my husband asked me if we could teach her the signing again. 

I have a one year old cat when I have my baby. Used to have 2 but one ran away which made her very sad. She was a kitten when I adopted her from the street. She's a good well-behaved healthy cat. I let go my job so I used to stay with her 24-7 during my pregnancy. When the baby comes she did show her rebel to me, chewing my clothes (not my husband's) and poo under the couch (my husband washed it). For 1month!! I continued ignoring because I cant touch her during my confinement and I was breastfeeding and all. I can see her very sad and lonely. Whenever my baby asleep I would be with her for awhile but not too much because she'll be needy and crave more attention when the baby's around. She's always comes first before but when baby's around I have to put the baby first. I feel so bad sometimes I'd cry. I would always consider her my first daughter and my baby is the second ones. We call her 'big sister' at home that my girl when she was 12mo did confused and confessed that she is a cat. I corrected her, she is a girl but then she said, "no, I am a cat"    Now it's almost 3years both are getting along very well. My girl still breastfeed and would lay her head on my chest next to her big sister who's also on my chest. They have no problem sharing. Though, sometimes, my girl will get this allergy on her face if she 'kissed' her sister too hard. She has eczema (I have eczema) but it's getting a lot less than when she was a baby.

I dont bother. We just happy with just the 3 of us.

Hi ansisari, I teach my girl to write not too long ago and she can write few letters correctly now but I think the most important is to teach her to hold the pencil correctly. Some people waited until they're 6 some 3 but if you want to start earlier than that you should get some pencils ready because they will most likely end up in two pieces. Like mine

nuria2012, I was super lost too. I think I still am, but lost in different ways. Everytime like that! If I want to mess with my head I will look at other parents' achievements and what they do with their kids..but that's a good mess I guess if I can measure where I'm at in teaching my girl. My girl's developments it's up to her I won't worry but it's how much I teach her worries me sometimes. I'm always worried if I do less, for example when she started to do her output, she finally telling me that she got what I taught her, I always thought I should teach her more, more words, more language. When she kind of excelled too much beyond the kids older than her, I got scared I pulled back some of the lessons, day off. Momma's dilemma..huh..

See, it really depends on how much time you want to spend flashing the cards to her. Doesn't matter how many times a day. If you use Little Reader, yes you can do at least twice a day, it's automated, it's on the screen, it's different thing. But for paper flash cards it's up to you how many times a day you want to do it. I kept those flash cards next to me everytime, she sat with me almost all the time. I started with 4-6 sets, 10 flashcards each, added new set every 2-3 days, I just put in any words, any subject but for picture I use the real picture ones, no cartoonish picture. clean and clear words' flashcards, no decorations around the words. hang the words around my house.

print out your family member's picture, put in their names on it and show it to her. my girl loved that!

Hi Suyapa, yes of course you can. you can edit things the way you wanted. Any languages any pictures any voices you preferred for your little ones. If you want them in papers or flash cards you can just print them away no adjusting needed like what you did in Word or Powerpoint files. (more to left, more to right, like I did before  )

Hi blooming brilliant, Can I cry with you because I had the same thing with my dear caring loving cheerful daughter recently.

First, BREATHE. When it happens I left the room. (I left the room because I got angry, if I am not I just look away and breathe) Take a deep breath. Empty your mind. (This is what I used to do I am no motivator whatsoever). If you still feel your head heavy with all the thoughts your kid is troublesome, not a good listener, etc..(like I did) Take a deep breath again. Keep doing it until, all the negative thoughts gone. Then I come back to her with a smile and look at how beautiful, smart and healthy she is. I tell her how I love her when she is so gentle. This is what I would say to her on her "Ultraman days"...I'll have a conversation with her plush toys just like how I'd like my girl speak or treat me.

 "My gentle Princess, I love it when you are soooo gentle.. Like squishhy softy Little Pinky (I take her pink bear doll and make it talk to me with my small voice), "why do you like me being gentle to you mom?"  (then talk again with my original voice) "Oh, that because it will make me happy, and I will not get hurt..mm (make a sad face) I will feel sad if I get hurt..."okay mom, I will always be gentle to you mom, I'm sorry..I love you mom" (talk on behalf of Pinky with small voice again). "Oh, it's okay Pinky, you good girl and I love you so much (my original voice)". And I hug Pink with smile. She usually will jump at me and hug me "Me too! Me too!"

 This works with me on few trials. I don’t overdo it because I’m afraid it’ll backfires (everything will backfire if we overdo it, right) It will make her feel envy to that toy etc. She'll feel that she's not a good person compared t that toy, it's enough up to the point she understand what you try to say to her. I think I will still use plush toys to show my expectations to her even if she has other siblings. The plush toys, she can’t compete with it right? But she’ll get the message..I hope so; I hope she’ll remember it as the longest as she can so people say emotion has some impact. Sometimes emotions speak louder than the message and I don’t wish to develop any negative attitude in my kid at such young age like, envy, jealous, God forbid, Hatred. I just want her childhood filled with love. Let me tell you, I was an angry person. I have this face which if I don’t smile for a second people wd think I'm gonna eat them. So, if I let it my girl will be scared of me. That just makes me even sadder and feels guiltier. Like when I kept quiet and not looking at her, she will be quiet, look down and not happy too. So, I quickly smile and change the topic. I breastfed (still ) my girl so on early days when  my girl didn’t want to have milk and refuse it I always check my feeling. No, I’m not bluffing. I read and I try.I did check my feeling and I changed it and it really worked! I changed the image in my head; stopped thinking about it, I smiled ha-ha-ha and she grabbed the milk with her mouth and had it like nothing happened. Sometimes we didn’t realize what we are thinking at that time affects our feeling and our kids sense it. Sometimes, I don’t even realize that I was thinking! I think I can get a clown job at the store near my house.

But something else I want to share. My baby sister comes to our house once in a while but when she’s around she’s always with her Iphone Blackberry whatever and keeps looking at that gadget 24hrs! She comes to visit her niece but she wont take her eyes off that gadget. If not updating facebook she’s updating games. I cant say anything more to her because I’ve said enough. If she 10 yo I can yell but she’s big enough to understand. My girl hit her so hard and she (my little sister) got angry by showing sour face and say “oww, that’s hurt..” I say nothing to my sister but I respond to my girl “Okay, are you bored? You want to play with her? I'm sorry, she’s busy right now let’s play with me. Okay? (While holding her up in my hands) But next time you can try to ask nicely again right, if there is no answer you can just walk away, okay” my girl nodded. This situation happens if she asks nicely repeatedly but my little sister so caught up with her virtual life she ignores her niece. Being with me I teach her to ask nicely and all but I never ignored her so when she’s being ignored she doesn’t know what to do. She did ask nicely and no result. I don’t blame my girl but I don’t encourage her to hit as well. So, I didn’t say anything to my little sister. But, if out of the blue she’ll hit her I’ll say something like “Poor, auntie..Are you hurt?“ I kiss my little sister and she’ll come kissing her too and say sorry. A lot of emotional games.. I hope you win yours .. 

hi jainarei,
yes I did signing too with her. I started when she's around 2mo. And her first sign was, 'milk' I think? She never signed 'apple' before (at the supermarket holding the tea box) that's why I didn't catch it until she got my attention with her big smile. Like, what are you so happy about?..Ohh..you could read that?   
Lucky I was at the supermarket or else I'd be jumping up and down. (Or not. I dont practice jumping up and down when my baby accomplishes something. I just gave her a fair applause and a cheer) 
How about you?    

If you mean 'adjusted' by clicking a button to change the language, then it's a no. It cant be adjusted to spanish like that.
The spanish downloads are available in the Brillkids website, not in the little reader program. But you can always download the spanish files made by other parents in the forum into the little reader program.
I can't say if they have it for all lessons but I think it's enough for a baby to learn or for a beginner to learn. It's an ongoing process, we keep adding the lessons later.

happy teaching!

thank you skylark. I guess nobody is using it as I too think it's a bit on the pricey side. Just that, I kinda like  it because it all sorted out and prepared so I can just use it (lazy).

The link is super amazing I'll check it out one by one and will try to use it first before buying. Thanks!

Hi all, when my baby was 3mo I started with random free materials on Brillkids. Only when she was 11mo I managed to buy LR & LM. I didnt miss a single lesson for the first 3months. It's just a few minutes work, flash it and go. I kept doing it and wasnt expecting anything from her because that will make me lose my focus right..(haha) .. but at 14mo she read thru pronounciation and signing. First she smiled n signed 'apple' when holding a box of apple flavoured tea (no picture of apple at all. just word of it). Then, all the words started come out from her head. Not only that she learns to read, she learns to move, parts of her body, colors, shapes, animals and lots of other things too.

Now, she is almost 2y9m she reads well independently. She loves when we read books out loud together.

Suyapa, it doesnt come in Spanish but we can always download the spanish files from the brillkids sites.

nuria2012, no dont tell your kid's paed. I did tell my kid's paed that my baby can read now and he rolled his eyes!! 

http://www.montessori-home-schooling.com/teach-montessori-at-home/sample-activities.aspx

Hi homeschoolers, does any of u guys use this? $500 for 3 years. Is it worth it?

How do I add fonts in my LR? The other fonts like Japanese, Arabic, Chinese. Thanks.

Hi Sophia. Welcome aboard