How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 40th Anniversary Edition [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Glenn Doman (Author)

Book Description

Series: How to Teach Your Baby to Read | Publication Date: October 25, 2002

This book presents four tenets: Tiny children can learn to read, tiny children should learn to read, tiny children are learning to read and this is a great joy for parents and child.

Product Details

• Paperback: 281 pages
• Publisher: Gentle Revolution Press; 40th Annv edition (October 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591170087
• ISBN-13: 978-1591170082
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every parent in this world should read this book!, March 23, 2005

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Lily Liu (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 40th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

I was so lucky to read this book and 4 other books by the same author when my baby son was 8-mon, I spent 5 nights to read Doman's 5 books, and started to teach my son with Doman's method immediately. I started with 25 words and add 5 new words every day, 1 second per word, 3 times a day. To my surprise, my son absorbed every thing so quickly and after a few weeks, he started pointing to the right objects so often when I showed him the word!

My son is now 11-mon and I have already started teaching him story books a month ago. He would not want to sleep at night if I forgot his story books.

I was overjoyed and thought that I have done quite much for my baby until I attended Dr. Doman's 5-day "How to multiply your baby's intelligence" course in his "The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential" in Philadelphia last week. The Institute is for both well babies and brain injured babies which was founded by Doman 50 years ago. It is a non-profit organization.

We saw all those 4-6 year-old kids and other 8-12 year-olds in their Institutes could read more than 3 languages, read many big thick books, do Math, scince and encyclopedia, gymnastics, swim, play violin in a very high level!!!

They were taught by their parents who most of them did not have any foreign languages and musical background and etc. The most impressive one is a 6 year-old girl who seemed adopted from China and she started the program when she was 4, only two years, she is now one of the best students in that institute who can do all of those things superbly. We also saw another 6-year-old girl who has some neuro problems and very sensitive to sound was also one of the best, she could even know many difficult math and medical knowledge.

Everybody in the class was astonished, thrilled and speechless, many were cried in the very formal graduation ceremony. We have learned every detail of so many good techniques of how to teach babies and kids with or without the relevant background.

I am looking forward to attend the graduate level class on this May. I am so thankful to Dr. Doman and his daughter Jenet, son Douglas and all the staff in the Institute. They have changed my and my son's life and will change our future forever and many others like me for 50 years! I really hope everybody who attended their class to speak out and help this great non-profit organization to be more world-widely spread and benifit more parents in the world!

I highly recommend this book and this course to you! Here is the link of the course and institute information:

http://www.iahp.org/course_schedules/course_schedules.html

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How fathers and mothers can help make reading fun, January 6, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 40th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

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!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Workable system for very early readers, July 25, 2003

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Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 40th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

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.