Your Baby Can Read, Day 1

We finally found a complete set of Your Baby Can Read that is actually affordable, and it arrived today!


So, as we try this out with the brats, I will update everyone to know how its going. 


So, if you don't know how the system works (I didn't until today), theres 5 dvd's, and you watch each one about a month, periodically going back to the older ones. So we are on Day 1 of DVD 1. And I will be seeing this DVD 2-3 times a day for the next 30 days. I'm super excited? Then there are also flashcards that have words from the dvd's on them, then you can pull out the end and it shows a picture of the word or phrase. The last component is a flip page book, where the first page shows the word, then you can flip the page to see a picture of the word as well as a sentence using it.


First impression of the dvd/system is this. I can definitely see how it holds babies' attention-- the songs, the pictures, the animals, the bright colors. The 'prime' age to start the system is younger than the boys, and I think they definitely would have been more interested a few months ago. But they did pay attention through most of the dvd (which is only about 20 minutes), which I thought was impressive since the only things that ever hold their attention for more than 3 minutes is a) the toy their brother has that they want desperately but can't have (and would lose interest in after 2 minutes if they did have it) and, obviously, b) Mickey Mouse.


So they spent 15 or so minutes watching the video, where they saw and heard words like cat, dog, elephant, wave, clap etc, and saw pictures of animals, or video of the actions, etc, and they even danced when they kids on the video sang The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (did you know that song has a 2nd verse? I sure didn't!). They already know what some of the words mean (clap, wave, arms up) and they know what animals look like and what they say, but none the less they seemed interested in the video and enjoyed mimicking what they saw on tv, and did hear/see new words as well.


So, do I think they will master the works William Shakespeare by Preschool? No. But, do I think that it will start to help improve and expand their vocabulary, and hopefully help them learn to read as well? Yes, most definitely. 


I guess we will see! More to come as we progress through the months and the system! If you have any experience with any of this, feel free to share, I would love to know what other parents think of it!