Comments on: “your Baby Can Read” Video, Is Anyone Impressed With This?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:57:20 +0000

ive seen these commercials too.. and i wonder ‘what’s the rush?’

By: pandabea

pandabea — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:54:20 +0000

I think it teaches memorization not how to actually read.

By: Cajunmam

Cajunmam — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:29:37 +0000

I don’t think children can learn to read just from a video. If you want them to learn how to read, then read to them a lot.

By: gud ole kuntry boy

gud ole kuntry boy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:59:45 +0000

I see ads for the sale of these videos on tv pretty often. I have to question if they are real or not. they look real. I just don’t think it is that easy to teach an infant to read. My wife taught our grandson to read when he was almost 3. She had her own little system and it worked well with our grandson. He was way ahead when he started school. Our grandson is a very smart young man now in college making excellent grades. Maybe if the kids are really smart to start with it might work. with an average kid it might not. I just don’t know.

By: Due w/baby # 2 on 3/2/10

** Due w/baby # 2 on 3/2/10 ** — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:11:47 +0000

I actually ordered “Your baby can read” I started playing the video for my daughter when she was 6 months (before that I didn’t let her watch TV) and buy watching that and showing her flash cards. By 11 months when I would show her the flash cards or when she would watch the video, when the word came up she would act out the word like clap, no, yes, arms up, arms down and that was when she was 11 months.
I still have her watch the videos everyday and she’s learning new words and acts them out and enjoys watching them. I like the product.

By: Protecting the baby

Protecting the baby — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:59:11 +0000

I wondered about this myself after I saw the commercial yesterday. It looks possible to me but it also looks like something you could do yourself. Like if you take your toddler to the kitchen for milk, write “milk” on an index card and point to it every time you ask them if they want milk. They use something similar here at the daycare where I work to teach the children (toddlers) to recognize their own names.