Since I've reloaded Little Reader on a newer computer, no videos show where they used to.  I just get a word, a picture and a word under where then videos used to play.  Please advise.

 So glad to hear your progress. Testing mom.com has access to many more critical thinking questions than the critical thinking company does for the money.

 My boys enjoyed the one episode of number crew that I accidentally purchased from discovery.com. I thought I was buying a series of them but it was only one episode for $30. I am not sure where to access the rest. 

I think it is mostly from the liver/gallbladder not being able to process the excess hormones, mostly beta hcg.  When I had morning sickness when I was pregnant with a singleton the nausea felt a lot like when I would have gallbladder problems when not pregnant. Since taking globe artichoke extract worked for my gallbladder before, I tried it and it worked.

My morning sickness was severe and lasted 24 hours.  It was never worse in the morning.

When I was pregnant with twins and had a very high beta hcg, the sickness was even worse and the globe artichoke extract didn't seem to work as well.  I read on this forum to use milk thistle and it worked.  So far it has worked on about 10 other pregnant people I have told. It is water soluble and only sticks around for 3-4 hours though so it needs to be taken at breakfast, lunch and dinner for those who have all day AM sickness.

  great idea. Thanks for sharing.

I enjoyed your update and your entire blog.  Thank you.

I was unfamiliar with NACD so I went to their website.  I'm now listening to Robert Doman's Youtube videos.  There is a lot of valuable information on the website and the videos.  It is very different from the Glen Doman information so I am really enjoying being exposed to a whole different set of early learning ideas.

In your list of educational gifts on your blog, I saw you mentioned Rachel and The Treeschooler's DVDs that I hadn't heard about yet.  I am looking into getting those. or seeing if they are at the library yet.

Julia

This may not apply to you, but when my 3 1/2 year old was two, he would get very oppositional if he didn't get enough sleep.  He was better when I figured out he needed two naps instead of one.  I didn't get him until he was 22 months old, so there was a learning curve.

He was better with more sleep time, but he didn't sleep completely through the night, so I gave him magnesium.  His behavior improved even more, to the point that I would say he didn't even experience the terrible twos.  Unless I ran out of magnesium.

I used InGear Magnesium Glycinate which is a powder.  I make lemonade using lemon juice, stevia and water and add it to that.  For him it took three scoops (a 1/4 teaspoon scoop comes in the bottle) in 28 ounces of lemonade. You can use a product called Natural Calm but that is Magnesium Citrate which has more of a laxative effect and that was too much for him.  Mag glycinate has less of that effect, but it still does that some.

Julia

I am very pleased with both my sons' reading and general knowledge abilities.  I have spent a lot of time reading other parents' advise on this board and have found it very helpful.  I rarely take time to post but I am so very grateful for those of you who do.  I love hearing stories about your kids and what they can do.  It has shown me what is possible.

It is a bit sad to see how much more you can see the little person inside my kids than others their age, how much more kids are capable of. Although I am not relaxed about my own investigation into early learning, I am relaxed about delivering it, so I know it is possible at the level I do it.  As they get a little older it is fun to see how exponential everything gets, meaning the learning snowballs on you.  I didn't exactly get it when Pokerdad said something like, the learning wasn't linear, it was geometric. Now I do.

Special thanks to Teachingmytoddlers, Aangeles, MandaBplus3, Pokerdad, Kerileanne.  I've found it very helpful to go back and read every post of some of the frequent posters here.

Julia

I have to resurrect this old thread because I wrote that my 17 month old only new 4 sight words.  The week after I wrote that post, I was showing my father that he could read some sight words and it turns out he knew almost every sight word that I had ever shown him, hundreds.  I just hadn't ever tested him before.

He started to phonetically decode at around 20 months old.  He can phonetically decode most words, but usually doesn't phonetically decode people's names very well.  That is what his preschool teachers tell me anyway.  I still don't do anything like testing him, but he started preschool when he was 22 months old and the teachers were so shocked that he could read that they would "test" him in astonishment.  He doesn't mind being tested at all, I just rarely do it.

I can't say he intuited phonics from learning sight words because I showed him Preschool Prep videos and Leapfrog videos, which both include phonics.  I worked with him pretty intensely on learning letter sounds.  He learned them very quickly from Preschool Prep videos, but I went over them a lot to make sure they were "in there." 

He doesn't read sentences much, just words, but he doesn't like being read to, so I don't sit down and work with him on that either.

Other than being very consistent with Little Reader 5 days a week from 3 (almost 4) months old (We do it 3 times per week now that preschool started),  I would say I am very relaxed about all this.  I used to show flashcards but never very often.   Maybe once per week, but he would want to look at so many at one time, like 200 at a sitting, that maybe that helped a lot too.

I've barely shown him Reading Bear, but it helped him a lot indirectly.  My older son asked for Reading Bear a lot and so he watched it a fair bit, but we never finished it.  He started to say all the words on Little Reader out loud after Reading Bear prompted him to say their words.  Since my older son would say the Little Reader words out loud, my youngest does too. Neither of them ever did that before Reading Bear. This has helped their speech tremendously.

I would like it, but I don't want to bid on it if you want it either.

Julia

That is great.  It is always fun to hear success stories and the path it took to get there.

Julia

You should absolutely do Little Musician.  It takes so little time.  I always did little reader, then little musician, then let little musician go right to youtube afterward, unstrap the boys when they were done eating and let them roam around listening to the youtube selections that LMu makes that relate to the lesson.

I think when the results show up, which they will, you will be really glad you started so early.  I think the more common regret is not doing more early on.  I don't think either of my kids would have watched it even from the beginning if I didn't show it to them while they were eating and strapped in high chairs.

The actual reading part was definitely helped along by preschool prep materials, (just buy everything they have) readingbear.org, and leapfrog videos. The Ladybird Keywords books are the first books my son read, so they were good too, even though I hate how many times sweets are mentioned in them.

I love book recommendations too and enjoy your posts PokerDad.

I love these types of books and appreciate ideas on how to enjoy more of them.

Here is something new that might help, Check out spritzinc.com, a speed reading technology. It isn't available yet, but I think it is possibly game changing.

I am always amazed at how someone can spend months or years synapsizing much of their hard earned life's insights into a book or books and we can buy one for $10.  One of the greatest bargains of all time.  What a way to leverage other peoples' knowledge.

Julia

Thank you.  I was able to look for a previous e-mail where you mentioned which versions I had and which I needed and that I needed to uninstall both old programs, then reinstall both new programs, then download content.  Previously I had looked on your site and had a hard time finding what the present versions were.

I had requested help before but didn't see your e-mail reply.  I found it when I looked this time. I don't have much time so I probably didn't devote much time to looking for it before.

I did all of the above and it looks like the content is all there.  I'll find out tomorrow when I launch it on the kiddos. I want the Spanish and French content eventually so I was anxious to get this resolved.

Hi,

I have never been able to access the second semester of Little reader or either semester of content in Little Math.  I set up a request for help and was e-mailed a response that sent me a link that didn't work.

When I double click the semester 1 and 2 content, an error message states that Google Chrome needs to launch an external application to handle bkreader: links.  I click on the launch application button and I get the message in LR that "Protocol format is not supported. Probably you have outdated application version."

Julia