Can Your Baby Read?

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After learning all about babys and their recognition and memory skills I had to post this. I know we have all seen he comercails for your baby can read and I thought this would be a good place for a disscution on it.

The curriculm is based on dvd's, that the parent plays for the child one or twice a day for about 30 minutes. It also comes with flash card for parent-child play. The curriculum uses a multi sensory method to teach babys read. The Dvd's show the child the word, then say the word then show a meaning of the word. For example if the word was monkey, they would say monkey and show a picture of a monkey. The multi sensory is to get more parts of the brain involved so the baby can make the assosiation between the letters the word and the meaning.

After everyhing I have learned in class about babies learning and using the product with my own daughter I would say babies can read or at least associate words with meanings and the earlier you teach the the more it will help later in life. I think a lot of parents think it is to early to teach them and just puts pressure on them even earlier. Although I disagree, kids love to learn, it is what they do. If we can give them any advantage we should, I know my daughter gets a kick out of the dvd's and prefers them over seseme street. Also the flash cards are a great way for me to sit down and spend tweny minues of quality time with her. I don't know if it teaches to nessasarily read, I know my daughter knows words and can match them with pictures. Although I don't think it is a bad idea to try nor will it hurt.