How to Teach Your Baby to Read

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Summary: Too demanding and may not provide long-term results...
Review: I'm sure you can teach a child to read (or to do math or whatever) if you try hard enough. But there are more important things to learn at the first five years. Language is important, but reading is not (at this age).
I suggest you to get a short early-stimulation course to improve your baby's motor, spatial, logic, social and emotional abilities, and avoid this book.
All written by Glenn Domas is based on an old and mostly quacky theory: the Patterning theory (discussed, tested and dismissed decades ago).
Recently, even the American Academy of Pediatrics has questioned the patterning theory and its applications. (Check the Pediatrics v104(5), nov 1999, p1149). Why? Because after four decades Doman has not provided any scientific evidence of the benefits of his techniques (not only for reading but for any other of its uses).
What this mean is that even if you can teach you baby to read, there is no evidence that it will provide any intellectual advantage over the years. And you may miss the window of opportunity to teach your baby more important things.

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Summary: A must-have for any new parent!
Review: If you love your child and want to give them the best gift you can ever give then this book is for you. I have seen first hand children who are labeled as having a learning disability. These children are not genetically disposed but were never exposed to the joys of learning. This book gives the reader the techniques and knowledge needed to give your child the head start he needs to succeed in this world. I wish my mother had read this book when I was a baby. This book gives back what society has taken away. Society severely underestimates the human potential in babies. I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Workable system for very early readers
Review: If you want to have a viable future where you can reach your full potential one of the single most valuable skills you can acquire is solid reading ability. "How to Teach Your Baby to Read" walks parents through a program for teaching the very young (even less than a year) how to recognize words and read. Needless to say, they use the method of learning to recognize whole words by sight and know what they mean. You will find educators that decry this system as well as those who embrace it. While there are strong opinions on both sides and I am no expert on the pros and cons of word recognition vs. phonetic, the bottom line seems to be that your child does learn to read.

The techniques are clearly explained in detail and easy for any parent to follow along and apply. With regular practice in a fun environment children learn the words easily and are soon on their way. This does require involvement by the parents and a time commitment. However, the time commitment is minimal considering the results achieved. This is a highly recommended book for anyone wanting to give their kids a big jump on schooling or who are home schooling.

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Summary: Never once does the author suggest you READ to your CHILD (m
Review: Never once does the author suggest you read TO your CHILD - that is what I didn't like about this book. I bought the whole series, hook, line and sinker, the kits, the 'bits of knowledge' the dot cards - all of it. It dawned on me very slowly while reading this book that Doman didn't talk about reading TO your child at all.
My daughter is five years old and reads at a 6th grade level, and we did not use this program. Doman never once mentions the library, books on tape or any 'great books' you can read together. His own that come with the kits for your child to 'read' are terrible, poorly illustrated and stilted because of the controlled vocabulary.

Don't waste you money on this book. Buy some great kid's books instead and read, read, read TO your child.

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Summary: How fathers and mothers can help make reading fun
Review: Now in a thoroughly revised and significantly updated 40th anniversary edition, How To Teach Your Baby To Read: The Gentle Revolution by child brain development experts Glenn Doman and Janet Doman is a simple, thoroughly "parent friendly" instructional guide to how fathers and mothers can help make reading fun for their children and prepare them for school through offering enjoyable activities and learning tasks which can begin in infancy. How To Teach Your Baby To Read is especially recommended for its extensive, simple to use, easy-to-follow learning plan combined with useful outlines and commentary to help structure quality bonding and instructional time with very young children. If you are a parent seeking to provide your son or daughter with the advantageous that an ability to read and that a love of reading will provide them throughout their school years and beyond, if you are looking to enhance your own parent/child bond, you wish to unlock your child's imagination, enhance your child's academic success, if you want to "school-proof" your child in the event that their teachers or classrooms are inadequate to your child's educational needs, then you need Glenn and Janet Doman's How To Teach Your Baby To Read!

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Summary: Not true children need large print
Review: The book saya that children would learn to read younger, but print is too small. NOT TRUE. My daughter discovered the word list at the end of each chapter, and brought the book to me with the upcoming list and wanted to know each word, although lists are not in large print. She came to me at age 3 1/2 and said "Mickey Mouse speaks spanish." Later that day I saw a news item in that morning's paper about Walt Disney films being translated to spanish.

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Summary: It grows your child's brain!!!!
Review: The Doman method is time consuming...but my child is worth it!!!! I am grateful to Doman and his organization for pioneering such important work. Its a shame that the method isn't more widespread. The world could use more of the high calibre people the Doman method produces.

At worst, after trying the method, you will have spent much quality time with your child. However, chances are your child will learn so many very important things, especially reading fluently at an early age!

Moreover, using Doman's techniques not only fosters the skills you are encouraging but actually "wires" your child's brain, making them smarter and more able in other areas and subjects (such as music, math, art, etc.) The theory is very logical and sound and fits in with everything I read about the baby's brain in the book "What's going on in there?". Don't lose the window of opportunity to encourage your child's amazing talents!!!

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Summary: Good idea gone bad
Review: There is only one useful point in anything Doman has to say and I will save you the money by telling you here: You can teach your child anything you want them to know. Don't ever look down on your child because they are very little, assuming they cannot learn something useful or important.

However, there are about 1,000 better ways to teach your child anything - reading, math, music, whatever - than by using the Doman method. The Doman program is boring, expensive, time-consuming and not as effective or as efficient as lots of fun ways you can make up yourself. I taught my children phonics when they were babies and toddlers using cards stationed at their changing table, refrigerator magnet letters, puzzles and bath foamy letters that stick on the wall. My daughter learned to read at 3.5 years old and my son started reading just before age 4. They are also very bright overall and good at math and other things that interest them. Don't waste time and money on Doman. Doman himself says learning is to be "joyous", but the majority of people I've "known" on-line using this program constantly complain that their kids won't look at the flashcards. Make it joyous by giving your child unstintingly the gift of knowledge, without ever demanding a certain achievment level of them.

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Summary: A must read for all parents
Review: This book can change the life of your and your baby. I read it before my daughter was born. I started to teach her since she was 6 months. Now she is 17 months and she can recognize a lot words, both Chinese and English. I am totally buying in the idea Glenn Doman described in his book. Your baby can ready and love to read. You just need to know how to teach them. And this book tell you how. You can also get some idea from the Teach Your Baby Chinese website at the http://www.geocities.com/teachbabychinese/ if you would like to have them to become bilingual in both English and Chinese.

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Summary: The only gift I give new parents.
Review: We look back in shock at the treatment of children throughout history. If we have this information and don't to use it, our children will look back at us in shock.