Slow and Steady Get Me Ready [Paperback]

June Oberlander (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2002

LEARNING BEGINS AT BIRTH! Research on brain development has shown that any attempt to maximize intellectual growth must begin the first three years of life; the younger the child, the stronger the effect. Beginning education at age five is too late!

The new, large (8 ½ x 11 inch), 352-page 4th edition of SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY includes 260 weekly, age-appropriate developmental activities that are easy to understand and do. This unique book is your answer to early childhood education and now contains updated illustrations, Measurable Parameters To Profile Child Development, Tips For Solving Behavioral Dilemmas, The Early Brain and Important Points.

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is a highly recommended early childhood developmental parenting resource that tells you when, how and what skills to develop, provides an inexpensive phonetic approach for reading and spelling, contains a complete readiness curriculum full of ideas, enriches the parent child bond with close interaction and develops preschool skills, painlessly and in proper order. It only takes only about ten minutes for each activity.

This wonderful, helpful book now provides an easy, cost-saving method to measure the progress of a child to determine when the child should be ready for kindergarten. A simple checklist guide of developmental characteristics has proven to be a useful tool for parents and childcare providers to monitor progress by observation for children from birth to age five. This guide is useful for parents, teachers, Head Start, etc., because there is little paper work – just a checklist.

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY was divinely inspired and is based upon Mark 9:36-37. Jesus taught his disciples to welcome children. This was a new approach in a society where children were usually treated as second-class citizens. Unfortunately, children are often still regarded as second-class citizens around the world. We hope that by interacting with them closely in an appropriate manner, as recommended in this book, parents will realize children are their most precious asset and will treat them accordingly.

This valuable, but inexpensive, resource has been found to be useful for children with special needs (e.g., autism, learning disabilities, Down’s Syndrome, etc.).

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is an inexpensive book that provides 5 years of activities at approximately a penny a day!

The best thing to spend on your child is your time!

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Newborns Develop:

· Interest in interacting with another person
· Beginning listening skills
· Enhancement of sense of touch
· Awareness of body parts
· Skill in grasping an object
· Interest in rhythm and repetition

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help One-Year Olds Develop:

· Confidence and independence
· Eye/hand coordination
· Awareness of left and right
· Ability to follow directions
· Vocabulary
· Gross motor skills

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Two -Year Olds Develop:

· Knowledge of different shapes
· Skill in color matching
· Memory recall
· A desire to help
· Awareness of similarities and differences
· An understanding of obedience and responsibility

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Three-Year Olds Develop:

· Observational skills
· Skill in making a decision
· Problem solving ability
· Ability to reason
· Freedom of Expression
· Role playing ability

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY Activities Help Four-Year Olds Develop:

· Knowledge of numbers
· Awareness of telling time
· Recognition of letters and their sounds
· Skill in forming shapes, letter, numbers
· Ability to think and associate
· Awareness of patterns
· More confidence and independence

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is a highly recommended early childhood developmental parenting resource that has achieved recognition in both the educational and medical communities. This resource was awarded the seal of approval from The National Parenting Center and is listed in the Head Start Education Resource Directory. The Harvard Family Research Project recommended SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY to the United States Department of Education, where it appears in the Educational Research Information Center (ERIC) database and the CLAS Early Childhood Research Institute – Office of Special Education Programs.

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY has been endorsed by Mary Pride, a leading home-school educator and author. This guide has been listed in the Journal of the American Medical Association as a pediatric reference. SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY has also been recommended by pediatricians and it has been used by hospitals and churches in birth and family education programs. In addition, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home and the October 2000 issue of Your Baby, a South African magazine, have endorsed this valuable 352-page parenting book.

An excellent article on SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is found in The Washington Post (Style Plus, May 20, 1997).

SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY has become a worldwide reference standard for parents. It has been translated and published in Japan, Romania, Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India (3 languages), Lebanon (Arabic) and Mexico (Spanish).

SINCE BABIES DON’T COME WITH DIRECTIONS, USE SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY TO GUIDE YOU.

From the Author

The first five years of a child’s life are the most formative and critical. SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY is for those genuinely interested in helping children get a good start in life so that they will not be left behind! These children will some day be the leaders of the future.

Numerous repeat orders have substantiated and demonstrated the usefulness of SLOW AND STEADY GET ME READY. People do not reorder a product unless they like it. Many mothers and grandmothers have said, "I wish I would have had a resource guide like this when my child was young."

THE BEST THING THAT PARENTS CAN SPEND ON THEIR CHILD IS THEIR TIME!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Xulon Press; 4 edition (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159160236X
• ISBN-13: 978-1591602361
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.7 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #38 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Education
  • #42 in Books > Education & Reference > Schools & Teaching > Homeschooling

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 76 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Full of great ideas for activities... July 3, 2003

By "pcgould2"

Format:Paperback

This book contains one educational activity for each week of your childs life, from birth to age 5. Although you are humorlessly instructed to do the activities in order, repeating the activity-of-the-week daily, the book is still useful in real life. Every few weeks, I flip through the sections for my children's ages and get ideas. The activities are exactly age appropriate- even the ones for young babies. They generally (but not always) use stuff you have around the house. And they are often ideas you might not think of on your own. I have also found that the activities have a good time-enjoyed to clean-up-the-mess time ratio!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning games! July 20, 2005

By LeBorn

Format:Paperback

Someone suggested I get this book because I was having a hard time thinking up ways to play with my daughter that would intrigue her. The things to do in this book are easy to follow and make use of common household items. I would certainly recommend this book!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas for exhausted, overwhelmed parents - go at your own pace July 2, 2010

By Kathy Carrington

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

As other reviewers have mentioned, the pacing in this book is off for the majority of children. The activites will not line up with your child's interests and abilities on a week-to-week basis since every child is truly different.

Is that a problem? No. Simply pick and choose to suit your child's interests and abilities.

Don't stress if the author seems to think that a not quite 2 year old should be able to button, snap, and zip and yours can't.
(1) The author taught kindergarten, not nursery school. She doesn't have tons of experience with thousands of infants and preschoolers. Who does, really?
(2) Every child IS different, learning things as they WANT to, not as they are forced to by some odd adult schedule. Many 5-year-olds still mix up colors. It's normal. It's also normal for a 2 year old to know them all.
(3) You can always skip activities that seem beyond your child, move ahead to ones that she is ready for, and come back to any of them at any time for any reason.

Are the activities and games basic, needing little money or prep? Yep. But as a tired, overwhelmed mom I can tell you that I couldn't think of most of them. It's nice to have a handy guide of simple, fun things to do with my child. Hurray for other moms who aren't as tired or are more creative than me. And hurray for me for having this book.

Is it too late to use this book if your child is no longer an infant? Nope! I bought this book when my daughter was 2 and kept forgetting to pull it out. She is nearly 4 now and I just went through the book again, flagging fun things to do with her. I've even flagged a couple of things out of the 1-year-old chapter.

I especially love the fun games to play that require nothing and can be played in the car or out shopping. Like what doesn't belong... can, box, cat. Or simple riddles... what has one eye and uses thread? Or "is this right" questions... Is the sky red? Yes, they require a bit more work to think up but they get a child listening and thinking. Both good things.

The only real problem with this book is in the "intro to the alphabet" section in year 4. For the letter X, the author uses a xylophone to teach the letter X and has the parent teach that the letter X makes the same sound as the letter Z. It doesn't. Any basic phonics book will stress to teach the proper sound for this letter - box, fox, exit, x-ray. These are words that the child will learn to read long before learning to read "xylophone" and other rule-breaker "x" words. So if you use the alphabet section of this book, I strongly suggest you change that lesson so it reflects a true phonics approach.

One "bad" lesson out of 260 fun, inexpensive ideas. Not bad!