Does Your Baby Can Read Really Work? D. H

My mom got this system when my oldest, who is now six, was a baby. Back then it only came with the DVD's not all the flash cards and things. We have started and stopped it several times. I know have three children, and what I've noticed is that the videos really don't keep their attention. I was having to force them to watch, so I just quit trying. I'm going to try again on my one year old, but it hasn't taught the other two. I will say again though, we haven't followed the once a day, everyday schedule.

I am sure it would work, it is based on a program I used for my daughter here at this web sight http://iahp.org/ The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, These people are great and do AMAZING work! I have attended their parenting course and highly recommend their products. So if you wanted a product I would go with them. They have specialized in this for over 50 years! Get the DVD as well as the program and keep it FUN. I have 5 children and used this with my last and what a difference it made! I have now given it to my daughter for use with her daughter. I do not know why they do not advertise but I only heard about them via: word of mouth so I totally encourage you to try these products! Hope that helps. And no I do not own any part or profit from this I am just telling you Mom to Mom becuase it works. God Bless you~!

About me: Married 27 years, mother of 5, ages 26 to 7, two of which are now married. Homeschooled my kids for the past 18 years.

I think the series does work, although I haven't tired it. Listening to the concept that's how babies tend to learn anyway. The only difference is you're paying for the stuff that you can make yourself.

In our child development classes we read several studies that disprove this program. You possibly can get your child to recognize a few words before they normally would, but by school age they will be back on the same level ground as most developmentally appropriate children. You can get the same effects by reading and talking to your child for a whole lot less money.

It's possible. I've read laudatory things from some parents. But does your infant really need to read?? Or do you just want to brag about what a good parent you are because your child is reading earlier than other kids? There's a risk that too early academics will burn a child out by early elementary school. Give your child time to play and just be a kid. You'll be astonished at what she learns all by herself, and with no pressure from you. I'd also recommend reading "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards" by Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, and Eyer. It's a great book!

From my experience: we just read books to our children. Our oldest is likely to start reading at age 3, just because he loves being read to and has a sharp memory. He knows all of his letters and his first 10 numbers, but that's just from playing with blocks and fridge magnets and reading many different books. Our second child doesn't seem very interested in reading, and actually would scream and fuss if I tried reading to him in early infancy (as I'd read to his brother); so he generally gets story time with his older brother, and tends to prefer social interaction and audio/visual entertainment to books. He'll likely start talking sooner and reading later. That's just personality. So, don't worry about teaching your child to "read" at 8 months - it will happen in its own time, and when she's ready for it, and if there is any benefit to early reading, it all evens out by 1st grade anyway, so it's not like you're giving her an "edge." She'll love reading if YOU love reading, and if you read to her often, and that will be enough. :)

My husband ordered the set and we sent it back after looking at the material. It teaches the baby to read from memorization not phonics (so is it really reading). You have to watch the videos everyday and the baby cannot watch anything else on tv but these videos. We decided that we could do the same thing that is in the program by ourselves using flashcards and just reading to the baby.

I dont know but I bought one for my daughter so Ill let you know. Its only 14.95 for the first 30 days and then 3 payments of $66. Ill let you know how it works for her or give it a try yourself if it dont work return it after 30 days. It should help however my daughter is 3 not 8 months. I think like all things it depends on your kid. They have to enjoy and pat attention to the videos. I keep you up to date though if u want.
About me: A work at home mom of three lil ones.

The easiest and cheapest way to teach your child to read is simple - read to her. I read to my daughter from the day she was born, following the text with my finger sot hat she would learn to associate the shapes of the letters with certain sounds - educators call it voice-pointing.
When she was three, we were reading "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" when she pointed to a word on the page and said, "That says So Wipe (Snow White)." It actually said Sneezy, but she had made the connection between the shape of the S and its sound. Within a few months, she was reading independently.

Hi, I know you've already decided not to get baby can read and I'm not trying to sell you on that particular method; but as a mom helping her 6 year old learn to read, I wanted to let you know what it's like. Yes, phonics are important to learn; but unfortunately, the English language is complicated and varying in what set of letters say what in one instance to the next. It's confusing to a child who is learning the rules of what letters are supposed to say what. There ends up being a lot of memorization, anyway. Just one instance: e-r-e in the words there, here and were are totally different. Air, ear, and er from the same set of letters... And they tell you that o makes a long and short o sound but how do they explain why it doesn't make a long sound in ONE, but instead it says "whu". So many more issues. I'm pregnant with my second and we may not get your baby can read, but we're going to work on a bit of memorization.