How to start with 3 -month- old baby?

[JainaRei]

Thanks for your reply nellie. I found the whole idea behind signing brilliant but was unsure how early you can start. The Australian website recomends 6 months but I thought if you are already starting with reading earlier it would make sense to start signing around the same time with a few key words like milk, mummy & daddy. So thats my plan at the moment but we'll see what happens when little one arrives.

[Suyapa]

Nellie, that is great! thank you!!!

[seastar]

Thanks for your reply nellie. I found the whole idea behind signing brilliant but was unsure how early you can start. The Australian website recomends 6 months but I thought if you are already starting with reading earlier it would make sense to start signing around the same time with a few key words like milk, mummy & daddy. So thats my plan at the moment but we'll see what happens when little one arrives.

Hi JainaRei
I started signing with my daughter at 3 months and I'll be starting from birth with my next little one. It's so easy, especially if you have good resources such as Baby Signing Time and Signing Time to help you learn the signs yourself.

[nuria2012]

Nelly, thanks for your answer.

Advice Now I have downloaded the colours with their names and pretend to begin to teach my daughter by means of flashcards. How many flashcards in each set? How many times per day?? Every week must I show her one topic, such as colours, two topics, three...  Is it not better to begin with concepts words that   are familiar for the baby, such as mummy, daddy, toys... I hope your answer, friends, please   I am lost.

My daugher is almost three months, although she looks like a baby girl of four months.    I love her.    

[nellie]

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!

[nuria2012]

Hello Nelli, thanks for answering!!!  I had a lot of flashcards. Some of them I bought in London. They are pictures which show the alphabet with the some words. They are not very big. I am showing eight pictures and other flashcards which are bigger. I suppose that the important thing is that babies find this time funny. In the morning, she listens good morning songs. One of them is fantastic and very funny. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/L89IDDq30J8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/L89IDDq30J8&rel=1</a> I want to do every day the same, more or less. Besides, during the day she listens more videos, sometimes she looks at the computer. She is in the cod.To sleep Babylullaby babies music, about 35 minutes, alphabet songs... and so on. The most difficult for me is learning to use the best methods. She depend on me to learn... And it is not my first language, but I will do the better.

I like that you or any other person gives me advices, clues, etc. I am going to learn a lot form here. I am continuoulsy looking for new websites in internet with songs, etc. My baby is the most important in my life!!! We are so happy with her. I want to teach her as much as possible, little by little..

[knstrick]

Not really for reading but some early learning you can do right away is June Oberlanders' Slow and Steady Get Me Ready Book. It has learning activities you can do with a newborn up to age 5. I just got it for my almost seven month old and I wish I had it from the start. They introduce reading and flash cards a little late in my opinion, but it still has a lot of great activities to do with baby.

[nuria2012]

Thanks knstrick for your help!!!

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