UPDATE! Here's a screen shot of what has been working for us.... Please excuse the other notes. Type A Mother alert.

We've had to switch up LR English and Chinese every 10 days of lessons to keep things interesting and different for her and also because Chinese isn't my first language so its much better the curriculum content teach her that than my questionable mandarin.

Of course, I dont' know how this will look when we have #2 join us in February... so another update then!

We were using Baby Doesn't Count app which is technically quite a good product BUT even though we were only doing 1 session /day my 14mo wasn't too keen on just seeing the red dots. We've just switched to Little Math and perhaps it is different from red dots so it piques her interest now.

Just what I've been waiting for!     

Hi,

I know according to Doman, no testing when using flashcards. We've been using Baby Sign Language flashcards to expand my 13mo's sign vocabulary to great effect, I show her the card and we do the sign together (which is kinda of testing isn't it?) but I notice she is clearly less excited to do ASL flashcards than when we do LR, Chinese flashcards, Doman Math App on the iPad and Bits of Intelligence. We only started doing BST videos (2 months ago) 2-3x/week during "TV time" and the other days we watch Baby Learns Chinese as supplement to the Chinese flashcards we use. Before that we just introduced signs as we went along using the words but found that there were some words that we didn't use often that she wouldn't have opportunity to learn without the cards.

Is there another way to use ASL/BSL flashcards, showing her the sign but not requiring her to be tested? Given her disenchantment (she doesn't hate it, she'll do it, but i can see less excitement than the other stuff) Do you think I should stop the BSL flashcards for a period of time or do something else? Although I'd rather not, I just don't want her to think we always need testing...

I think it's awesome that you're doing Chinese and ASL with your baby in addition to so many of the Doman recommended sessions!

I just wanted to mention that we also taught/are teaching our daughter ASL (in addition to Spanish and English and now French and Chinese), but we never did any ASL flashcard sessions. We just signed to her throughout the day. She started signing back a few words by 9-10 months and steadily increased. Her signing really took off after her first birthday, quickly reaching a signing vocabulary of 100 words and soon over 200. That might be one place where you could cut back sessions to make room for others. Just a suggestion...

kmum has a ton of great suggestions and info on her blog!

Good luck! Let us know how it goes...

We're using the Baby Sign Language flashcards with words that we probably wouldn't have context to introduce so early (we live in urban HK, so Horse has no meaning to her at 13mo until she's a little bit older to visit a petting zoo) But that is a good idea to switch the subject once we are done with the sign-language flash cards. Hopefully tha would coincide with when she is more verbal and we can use more Baby Signing Time DVDs with her.

Our schedule is currently tied to our routine, we do LR right after milk when we have a snuggle together, Chinese when she gets her diaper changed, Math when I get dressed/blanket time, ASL at meal time etc....

i do have another question for you - when you introduce a new language to your daughter, is that after you have completed one language curriculum and do you use those languages at home? eg. French/Spanish etc.?

Hi, I've been working on getting my LR program working just the way I need it for my kid. We have designated a windows10 tablet for Litter Reader but unlike using LR Touch on the iPad, there is no "Exit" button on the screen. There is an "Esc to Exit" but since it is a tablet, there is no keyboard.

I only want to play one segment of each day's content to her each time, for example. Multisensory Part 1 since her attention span is very short. On the iPad that is not a problem because I can press Exit but on the LR running on my PC tablet, the program runs continuously and doesn't stop at the end of the Multisensory lesson but keeps going on to Pattern Phonics etc and I cannot exit out unless we go through the whole day's lesson.

Is there a way to either Exit without a keyboard or set it so that ONLY the multisensory lesson will play and then exit on its own?

It says on the booklet at http://www.brillkids.hk/media/ebooks/ebook-teaching-your-baby-math.pdf

 "Should you decide that the Doman or Shichida program is more to your liking than the Little Math Curriculum, you can download the lesson files you need directly from the Brillkids Forum then proceed to sit down with your child and press play".

I'd like to compare those programs on Little Reader to the LR Math curriculum but the forum is huge....

Can someone direct me to where these files are that I can just download and play off Little Math?

Yea. That's more than I can handle.

I thought hard about it and in some ways Bits of Intelligence (BOI) sessions are not too diff from reading at this point when introducing items - show the picture and say the word (Image only) and reading, show the word only. I do our reading Word-Image instead so that LO has an clearer grasp of what the word means. So conflation/modification of both.

So I'm just going to start our program that way. we are at 2-3 BrillKids session a day using just 1 multi sensory lesson, 1 Bits of Intelligence/English flashcard session, 2-3 Chinese flashcard sessions and 2-3 ASL flashcard sessions at the moment. I still need to find another 2 sessions for BOI to get to 3 and find time to introduce the math program which will need me to find a minmum of 6 more sessions somehow - a total of SEVEN more sessions and this isn't the FULL program Doman recommended >.<

Anyone here try to do all of Doman's program?

That's 5 reading sessions
10 knowledge sessions
5 math quantity lessons
3 equation lessons
2-3 exercise sessions (brachiation and passive/active movement

That's a lot of sessions in a day!

We have Chinese language and ASL on top of that as well....

How does any one do it? Suggestions please?

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Thanks Skylark.

I use a PC at work and have the Pro installed here - but we use the iPad at home. Still thinking if its too spendy to buy a windows tablet for the kiddo.

I'm looking for a setting where I can direct LR not to play certain sections?

Id like to implement something closer to the Doman schedule (just 5-10 cards per session x 3-5 sessions a day) but using the LR English material curriculum.

I see there are categories I could use as individual sets but I'd like to know if the cards would be rotated /randomised and new words added and retired daily or if playing categories plays the whole set of flash?

Also I thought of just teaching a specific lesson type and category from the lesson page and looked closer at the playing the days category lesson and saw that when the set ended (like action words in picture flash lessons, most days one words was rotated out and a new one put in. But at the end of the category of word (ie The last action word added before and ALL actions words were completed), the whole set including the latest new word added in the day before was rotated out after just one days viewing and a new category introduced.

Would the newly added words come back again in the same category in another days lesson later on down the line?

Does anyone here do the full Doman program with multi languages? We've been doing ASL, then introduced Chinese and just started LR English and some Encyclopedic Knowledge.

7am: Chinese flashcards
715am: LR English
730am: Encyclopedic knowledge/math/???
8am: ASL
4pm: Chinese
430am: LR English
6pm: ASL

I want to implement Doman's program but with such a schedule above, i'm wondering where's time for Music, Math, Encyclopedic Knowledge AND structured physical exercises? I am out of the house for work from 9am to 3pm so we are limited in the time I have with her...

Does anyone have comments on doing the full program and the schedule you use to share?

Wow, what a model for multi-language learning concurrently!

Do you mind sharing with me your daily schedule? Like when you'd do the lessons?

I guess technically I'm doing 3 languages: English, ASL and Chinese in that order. I'm just starting to wonder where there's time for Math, Music and Encyclopedic Knowledge (as per Doman) and then physical exercises.... It would be such a busy day!

We've just started a mixed program with Little Reader and I have noticed that my 13mo does not like the Multisensory sections of LR! It goes to slow for her liking which makes the same sense that Doman says in his book that the sessions have to be fast and brief.

Anyone notice something similar? I've taken to skipping those sections and just focusing on the picture flash, sightwords and phonic words. She really looks engaged when it is words on the page. Isn't that oddly amusing?

Great, we do ASL at home too. In fact thats where we started as an English speaking family. Its a good idea to keep using the ASL signs with the Chinese words to help her bridge the gap.

How did you use Baby Learns Chinese/PIM DVDs in your own program at home? We have the DVDs and the flashcards... I'm using the cards like Doman suggests, but stumped as to how many times to show which chapters (introduction or review) as we go along.