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How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 40th Anniversary Edition

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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

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!

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.

I used the program in this book over 20 years ago to teach 5 of my 6 children to read. (My oldest son was already reading when I discovered the book.) It worked beautifully! All my children were reading well above grade level as they entered kindergarten! As an elementary teacher now, I can see that this program can help children who may not respond well to phonics learning. Whatever help we can give our children, let's do it! Those who struggle with reading, struggle with every subject, because they all require reading! I highly recommend this book!

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.

I stumbled across this book a little over 24 years ago. I read it immediately and found a wonderful philosophy: 1) babies are learning beings; 2) learning should be fun; 3) learning should always be a reward, NEVER a punishment; 4) always stop BEFORE the child wants to; 5) mom and dad are the best teachers; 6) the whole word method is the best way to start (rather than phonics). I started when my son was 17 months old. By the time he was two he was reading Dr. Seuss and similar authors on his own. He was reading Hardy Boys BEFORE Kindergarten! He went to MIT majoring in mathematics on a full scholarship and has recently finished an MS in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins. He will go to a first tier law school next fall. This book was a GREAT start and a great book to learn about teaching. I recommend it without reservaton!

I used the word cards with my oldest, she knew more than 60 words at 20 months, by age 3, she knew words I had not taught her. In kindergarten the school told me she read well above 3rd grade level with excellent comprehension.

With my second daughter, sight method did not work, so I followed instructions and made no effort to push her. I found a phonics comic strip workbook and taught her to read at age four.

Phonics method is slower, but she also is a good reader. The benefit for me was learning the phonics rules myself - I didn't know them although I have always been an avid reader.

Sight method is easier and faster if that's how your child learns - if not, don't sweat it, phonics will probably work but I think the child needs to be older.

Fortunately, the public schools now know that not all children learn in the same way, so they use reading specialists and various methods.

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!!!

I just finished reading this book. Though I have not tried the method yet, I can tell you that my mother read this book 26 years ago, used the method and I was reading by the age of 2. So I am now in the process of using this method with my own son. It is a well written book which clearly explains an easy method that in my family at least, is tried and true :) A must read!

I followed Doman's instructions to the T on my 14-month-old daughter and was as enthusiastic and "joyous" as humanly possible. After months of repeated attempts, I just could not get her interested. She'd rather look at a blank wall than the flash card. It's not that she isn't bright, she loves books and now at 23 months can recite many of them back to us from memory. She can count and identify shapes, colors and letters. Everything she has learned has been through playing (doing puzzles) and having fun. After many months of frustration and feeling like I failed, I have come to the conclusion that the flashcard method is too much like drilling and just isn't fun for a child. Contrary to what Doman states, it is very time-consuming because of the preparation involved and not to mention all the repeated attempts you go through just to get your child's attention. My advice would be to just focus on reading to your child using large print books and pointing to the words as you read. Forget the flashcards. Maybe if I started when my child was a newborn things would have been different but to date I have had no luck.