Learn To Read For Kids

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Just wondering if this is something worth using. My kids don’t watch much tv but when they do I would like it to be something educational. The shows I keep recorded for them are Dora, Diego, Little Einsteins and Planet Earth. Do you think “Your baby can read” is just as good or better? How long until you noticed they were actually learning stuff from the video? How long have you used it? Did your kids learn how to read with this video? Thanks!

Thomas Hoefter

I saw this just this last weekend (may 2008) and the whole subject of the commercial was like this “Parents. You’re busy. There’s not enough time in the day. How are you supposed to have time to teach your kid to read??? Well listen to this, we have this special new thing… play these tapes when your child is sleeping and he will learn how to read!”
Now I admit I was tired when I saw the commercial but I SWEAR that is what it was. I’ve googled it and searched youtube but can’t find it with my keywords.
ring a bell? what is this product?
by the way, I don’t want it I think it’s pretty pathetic if a parent won’t take the time and responsibility and teach their child to read. Afterall, what else are you “too busy” to do with your child….. sad sad world.

Hi. I’m unschooling my kids except for reading and math. My 6-year-old daughter is doing great with “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” and we just got Shillermath and so far it looks promising. For HER, at least. My 5-year-old son, however, is a little different. He’s a little, shall we say, *off.* I’ve read all the books and I’m 99% sure that an expert would say he has ADHD. Whether or not he actually has it doesn’t really matter too much because whatever the deal is, it’s hard to get him to pay attention to me, or even look at me sometimes.
Anyway, I was thinking that when he was ready to read, he might not really be able to follow any structured program. It might be easier for him to just pick it up informally. Buy I really don’t know how he would. I asked this on another forum and the only person who answered said that her son just memorized what was read to him and then he could read, but that’s not real reading, is it? So, how did your kids do it?

My son just started first grade and canot read atall. All the other kids can read and write a little. The other moms were shocked when they saw that my son could not read or wirte ATALL, haha. i feel like a terrible parent for not teaching him like they did with there kids…..
How well could your child read when they started furst grade? And how well could the other kids in the class read?
thanks.

so the puritan women taught their kids how to read. how exactly would did this make the puritan society any better? or just (historical) society in general?

My husband and I have been at it because he thinks it’s cute to teach our two year old to say inapproiate things because he thinks he’ll just forget it, but the other day he tried to get him to say something he really really shouldn’t say in front of his brother, our sister in law and a friend. (I wasn’t there, but the night before we had talked about him doing this and I begged him to please not do it anymore) Anyway, my sister in law told me the next day and I confronted him (All I said was that I couldn’t believe he would do it again and thanked him for embarassing us and teaching our son to say what he did) and he said “Shut your damn mouth” in front of them. Now she doesn’t want me to watch her son when she goes back to work (She just had him a couple of months ago and had been talking for months about how she wanted me to keep him) and now they think my husband is a loser for doing that. I’m so embarrassed and it hurts my feeling so bad to think that they wouldn’t want us around our nephew when I’m not the one that did anything wrong.. but what he does reflects on me. I don’t know how to fix this. I tried to talk to my husband he just said that he wouldn’t do it anymore but the damage is done and he won’t even talk to them for me. I can’t make them trust him. It’s so embarrassing to be married to someone people thinks is immature or redneck and it breaks my heart to think that, because daddy taught him bad words, that they wouldn’t want their kids around my little boy. I’ve cried about this for like twenty minutes now and now I’m just pissed.. how do I fix this?