Can your baby read?
Sat, Apr 11, 2009
Recently we have been working with our five year old who has started to express an interest in reading. He is not yet in Kindergarten and has just tackled all his letters! We read every night together and have since birth but he is a very busy boy and until now has not really shown an interest in reading on his own.
So we are at the library picking out books and a woman with a child about three was picking out the same books we were. Much to my surprise he was reading the titles to her! Of course she was glowing with that look at my child pride we all hope to gleam with from time to time, and she shared with me she had used several programs such as this one http://www.yourbabycanread.com/default.aspx to teach her little one to read.
We checked out our books and headed home. Of course I started to look at some of these programs for my boys, but I am still not convinced that the systems work for all kids. We will try it with our littlest one and continue to encourage our older boy to read and make it fun. It is worth a shot but I also refuse to take the fun out of being a kid just so that they can read sooner. I also wonder what the kids that read at three will do in 1st grade?
What do you think? Should babies read? Is it harmful or beneficial?
Who thought I would be teaching my baby and my 5 year old to read at the same time. 
Tags: babies reading, education, reading
My kids great grandmother bought them (boy/girl twins) the Your Baby Can Read and they were bored to death! I agree 100% with you, I am not one to push my kids to sit and study when they should just be having fun and learning through play and good times - you are only a kid once, let them enjoy it!!!I think if kids express an interest that is one thing but to push them for your own goals is selfish, I am interested to see what the drop out rate is of this generation - will they be burned out from being pushed so hard so early?
Good to know I am not the only one who wonders these things! Thanks for sharing and keep up the play and good times:) I agree it is the best way for our little ones to learn!
We recently purchased Your Baby Can Read for our 17 month old daughter. One of my concerns was that she wouldn’t have fun with it as well. We don’t want to push her. I wrote Your Baby Can Read Reviews to track her progress and give an update.
You can check it out at http://hotmommydeals.com/?p=121 .
Cool, never knew that! Lately I’ve been reading a lot on this.
As a mother,I was curious what the programs out there were about. There is nothing wrong with these approaches to reading as long as the videos are relevant and information is not forced on a child. We have the Your Baby Can Read series and we wanted a bit more so we purchased the Monkisee DVDs. I decided to try out different programs thinking if it ever became work or something she did not want to do than we could use them as Frisbees.I am truly impressed with the Monkisee DVDs as a mother and as a school psychologist, wish I could hand them out to the young children I assess for developmental delays.