Your Baby Can Read? My Baby CAN Read!

Yes, I bought the DVD's. For my 4 year old son (who is now 8). It was too late for him to succeed with the program. So when I had my baby daughter Summer, I made sure I followed the instructions to a tee. 3 months old, and I had her sitting in front of the TV and watching the first of 5 DVDs. At 10.5 months old, I finally decided to quiz her. Being a somewhat hard-nosed parent, I was trying the hands off approach up until that point, afraid I'd push her too hard. So on that day I made 20 flash cards with 20 words from the first video. At this age, she'd been through all 5 DVD's and still watches them from time to time. To my surprise, my 10.5 month old baby, who obviously, can't talk in sentences yet, and barely saying mama, and dada, etc., read to me 8 of the 20 words as I showed her the flash cards. STUNNED! OMG! It actually worked! What was even cooler, was I didn't have to do anything more than turn on the DVD player! Great time to do housework folks - baby is GLUED to the tv... they love it! Yes, my flashcards helped, but such a very small investment in my time and more entertaining than anything. I eventually bought their word pack - it was just so much better than my crappy pieces of paper.

The next year while I was agonizingly waiting to move back to the USA, I made her 3 more DVDs (hey, I had a lot of time on my hands). These were personalized, with more words, music, photos, video clips of the family (i.e. "this is Grandma Helen!"... on the screen), and of course, interspersed with little pieces of my upbringing (Roger Whitaker singing "Yellow Bird", or "Stewball" by Arlo Guthrie). My final piece de resistance was a DVD I called "Tribute to America", including the typical 4th of July fare, "Proud to Be An American", "God Bless America", and "The Star Spangled Banner". She loved them all! And it was kinda fun learning how to make DVDs on Windows Movie Maker. It's on your computer in the Accessories section and so easy, you should try it!

I gotta ask you non-believers out there... HOW STUPID ARE YOU? $80 bucks to get your infant reading??? Seems to me a much cheaper investment than 4 years of college - I'm betting my daughter has a full-ride scholarship. HUGE bang for my buck! I never even saw the commercials (I was in Italy when I bought it). I was just thinking one day that there has to be some program out there where you can help your young children learn to read. So I googled "baby read" and I found these DVDs. And since I'm a horrible, horrible teacher, this fit the bill perfectly! I am so surprised how cheap parents are. If I could pay someone $80 to teach my child to read, wouldn't that be totally worth the investment? Duh! I think so!!! I have had children who have struggled in school, so believe me, I know what I'm talking about.

I have to tell you, if you haven't tried it and you have a child under 2.5 (I don't know if a child older than that will have the patience to do this), then definitely go buy it NOW! The guy who made it is a child psychologist. And I don't care what some of the naysayers say... my daughter is VERY NORMAL, and WAAAAAY ahead of the game. She is 26 months old now and can read about 650 words; knows her ABC's by site, sound, upper and lower; can count (with help) to 30, and also counts by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's,' 7's, 8's, 9's, 10's (typical multiplication fare), she sings every song on every DVD I've made (including the patriotic ones), and has started reading words on her own - things I never taught her! Along with this, she has started learning other things, physical things that I'm sure is because she learned to be observant at such a young age. My current crack up is seeing her doing ballet imitations while watching her Barbie Nutcracker DVD. I just don't think that's par for an average 26 month old. The thing is, I think my daughter is normal. I just think she learned things early and got a head start. In other words, ANY CHILD CAN DO THIS!

Okay, so you don't believe me??? Watch the video... She's 15 months old here.

P.S. I have enclosed a link, but I don't see it here. So you can always copy and paste the following into a new browser window.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=app_2392950137&ref=profile&id=1168311614#/video/video.php?v=1026797868047


Rachel