i agree that interaction with your baby is very important . please don't use the dvds and tv screen like a babysitter so you can have free time to do other things . your baby can enjoy them and benefit more fromt hem if you sit and watch together .
i have a list of wonderful dvds i used with Tina , i rely a lot on dvds because we live in a remote area , we cannot get ballet classes, music classes ,swimming classes .... so i am always on the internet looking for dvds that can teach me to teach my baby .

one of the dvds that we love from when tina was 3 months old and i believe it had great effect on her language development , developed in her love for music  is bright bubs dvds . it is a musical and movement program that stimulates your baby's senses .
it uses massage , scarf play , bouncing , ball ...
we made it part of our daily routine like reading and flashcards. your babies will love those 20 minutes every day.
you have to check it out .

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viviane

Janek of course carry on nursing . it is the best you can help your daughter recover . she needs the breast now more than anytime . if you allow her you might see that she won't let go . babies know what is good for them , formula and cow milk is actually not recommended when you have mucus and cold . she will be taking all the good antibodies from your milk and increase her immunity .
use breastfeeding as an opportunity for you and her to just relax lying down , you need it too if you have the flu .

hope you both feel better soon .
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viviane

hi i have been offline for  a long period  :(bad interent connection , and i missed many of the discussions .
regarding encyclopedic knowledge , there are so many ways to present programs of intelligence which i found with my experience with my daughter a lot more fun and practical . and KL you said you don't do it with felicity but since your daughter is able to read here's a wonderful way to do the program :
you can make all the ten magnitudes into a homemade book , if it is about bats you can add different photos of bats not just the bit card and it can be done for all bits .i find it more fun to read a  book with my child  than to just read the programs of information .
anyway my hurt child loved all information in whichever input , at the end she was reading all the programs of intelligence at the back of her cards independently ( she is a speed reader ) , but for her two years old mobile sister it is challenging and books are more appealing to her

hope this can help
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viviane

unfortunatly at this end of the world where I live and with very bad interent connection , i couldn't use little reader as much as i intended . i have a lot to share with all of you . my experience doing doman for years , bringing up 2 daughters and a baby boy on the way , i was so happy to be part of such wonderful group of parents .
would love to extend my license and continue to use little reader and hopefully i will be more online .
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viviane

Some of my pictures for my flashcards are from my daughter's favorite dvds , like signing time , teach your baby to read , muzzy using copy paste while playing the dvd .
is there any problem with that ??

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viv

i hope you are workign on allowing us to use our own photos for our avatar , much nicer than random photo completely unrelated to us .
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viv

Hello Nohaya
I hope you don't mind me replying in Arabic till I sort out my keyboard.
We are Lebanese living in Gambia in West Africa for years.

All you have said is very true. Kids are like sponge able to learn everything we present them in clear loving way.
I am very familiar with Doman method, that time we didn't have the luxury of using computer so all my program was hard copy, we spent night cutting gluing creating books and words, and I have a library of thousands of encyclopedic knowledge bits.
And we didn't have the internet to share with other wonderful parents, plus of course we had the stress of an intensive physical program to work on with our child.
Unfortunately Gambia is very primitive and there are not much learning resources available.
I did start teaching Is in English only because I flew to phili twice a year for her evaluation so I would fill my suitcase with books and material from their bookstore and bring it back home .
We learned also French and Spanish.
We don't watch much TV, but there was this Arabic TV program for kids: keef w laych I would let Isa watch it to expose her to Arabic.
In this program they had karaoke type songs where you can read the lyrics on the screen.

Than I got Rosetta stone in Arabic and when we started our first session, what happened was mind blowing. As soon as I started reading for Isa off the screen in Arabic, she objected and said she can read it herself. I told her you cannot I never taught you. She answered that she learned to read from watching the TV.

Well another proof that babies are genius.
Doman tells you, once the child learns two or three languages, it is so easy to learn others, and all you need is a grammar book and a dictionary. And this is what I did with isa at some point she was reading dictionary books to learn new words.

With Tina and the coming baby I like to start earlier and not keep it for later. After all English speaking mums managed to teach their babies Chinese.
So I guess Arabic won't be so difficult with its alphabet and pronunciation.
I have so many homemade English books; maybe you can help me translate them to Arabic.
Looking forward to work together.
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viv

daughter Isabelle born 22/08/2003 ( learned the doman way from around nine months )
daughter Christina born 20/03/2006 (started from birth with Doman , but after introduced other aproach)
baby boy due sometimes in October

I highly recommend www.signingtime.com  and their dvds for teaching signing to your babies .
I signed for Tina from about 6 months , by 8 months she signed back to me , and she never stopped . even now at 2 with language skills of a 4 years old she still enjoys signing her words while speaking .
i feel signing with her and being able to communicate before she could speak help developing her language skills .

Nohaya
i am a bit embarassed to say that Arabic is my mother tongue and my girls learned english as first language , french as second , and also african dialect of the country where we live , but i never taught them to read in arabic .
i find it a bit difficult because our spoken language is different of the written one , i do talk to them in arabic , and they understand everything , but showing written words and the spoken ones feels like teaching two different languages .
and probably it didn't help living overseas where arabic learning  resources are not available . my eldest learned to read arabic at the age of six using rosetta stone software , but she could already read in english french and spanish .
from day one i talk to them in arabic and english , but we read in english , and they choose to speak in english . even when i speak to them in arabic they answer in english , which is heartbreaking for their grandmother who doesn't speak english .

i like to do it differently with baby number three , and hopefully this litle reader software will make it possible .
i will try to get an arabic keyboard and hopefully can help you with some translation , so we can have more arabic files .
glad to find you here .
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mummy of two and one more blessing on the way , from lebanon , living in Gambia .

Hi I am new to the group just joined yesterday , going through the archive trying to read old posts .
This is my first post .
I did use babyplus with my second baby Tina now 2 years old , and I am now 22 weeks pregnant with my third baby and i have been using babyplus from week 17 .
i didn't know about babyplus when my first baby was born , don't think it even existed , she is 14 years old now . and it is difficult to compare her with her sister because she is hurt and was the reason for me to know about Doman , my daughter was on their intensive therapy program since she was nine months old , and the success we had with their intellectual program is mind blowing , ability to do instant math , speed reading . unfortunetly we didn't have that same success with their physical program but i won't go into details here .
back to babyplus , Tina continue to amaze everybody with her abilities , not sure if it is because of using babyplus , or the benefit she got from years of experience i had in the field of early child development .
i read testimonials on babyplus site and all parents observed the same like me with their babies .
talking about birth as age 0 neurologically visually , auditory , ...and early reflexes that babies grow out of them ,
i felt like Tina was at a more advanced level at birth , listening to the variations in babyplus helped develop her sensory pathways . She didn't really startle a lot like newborn babies do , immediately after she was born , she was lying on her stomach , and was able to lift her head and turn  it in our direction where i was standing talking to her grandma , staring at us with eyes wide open .
she said her first words very early at around four months , and her vocabulary kept growing , she could speak in sentences by 14 months , .....
everybody around us commented how different she looks from other newborn babies , that they never saw a baby like her .
could it be  babyplus ??

I was lucky that i didn't have to pay for it . Taking care of a hurt child wasn't easy for us , and i really have to carefully choose how to spend money  . there are so many things advertised and at the end you don't know what to buy and it can get really expensive .
i belong to another parenting group and a parent on that group kindly offered to land me his babyplus , it flew all the way from canada , to where i live in Gambia . than when i finished  from it , i sent it to another mum in Germany , back to canada to its original owner .
Now when i got pregnant again I asked for it praying that i will be available and would have been very disappointed if i didn't get it , feeling it might be a missed opportuinity for my unborn baby , so part of me really believe it did make a difference .

sorry for the long reply , and looking forward to get to know all of you

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