In the wee hours of the morning, odd commercials pop up. They go on and on for upto 60 minutes at a time, alwyas trying to get you to buy their new latest and greatest item. This is nothing new, I had become mostly immune to them years before. One infomercial (and now 2) has stood out over the last few years, promising amazing results and showing such adoreable and tiny babies READING words and books like nobodies business.
Yes, I am talking about Your Baby Can Read! This program stuck in our minds because it boasts that for only 15 dollars, we could try their program and get our little ones on the road to become good readers too. We made the call. It's actually 228 dollars after taxes and shipping. For a complete cirriculum, that's a decent price. We paid a little extra to get it in 3 days.
So we have it here, and the children have been following it now for a week, loosely. Last night, I was sitting at the computer talking to a friend via Yahoo... my newly 3 year old climbed up in my lap, and wanted to talk too. I typed out a word and asked her to tell me what it was. She was wrong, and I wrote out the one she guessed, so she can see the differance. Then I typed out the next word.
nose
"Nose!" and she points to her nose.
eyes
"Eyes" and points to her closed eyes.
I start doing the excited "Good Job" dance. She got 3 words right last night. Then we introduced another, because she wanted to see what that one looked like too. I bet I need to write Level 1's 22 words out somewhere, so I remember to work all 22 and not just the 10 on the slide cards.
My 13 month old is also watching and doing the program. He is following directions, and focused on the DVD, and engaged in the activities, so I know that he's learning too.
DH says it's already the best 200 dollars he's ever spent~ Just on the way the first day had gone (which was AWESOME).
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How many hours per week do they recommend? And do you personally do it in addition to regular TV or in place of it?
ReplyDeleteThey suggest that you watch the video 2 times a day, and do the activities once a day (or more).
ReplyDeleteI've taken to leaving All Preschool shows on until 10 AM, when I start Studies for all. The littles play and do activities as I lay out lessons and instructions for the bigs, and then by 11 am I am able to focus on watching and doing the DVD with them. It only lasts about 20 minutes :) We do the video again while I am making supper, and the bigs watch and participate in the video for me (they get their practice!)
We have activity cards (10) with a wipe off card, and a flap book and some other flashcards... so at least 3 different activities a day. I try to do them twice though :D
Hmmm, I suppose we are using it BOTH ways. I am cutting out a LOT of TV during the day while DH is at work. Normally, I would have to turn off the TV to set up the DVD~ and I have ended that battle with turning off daytime and evening shows. In addition to the educational shows, but in place of the mind numbing stupity.