Talk to me about your experience with 'Baby can Read' DVD's.
My DD is 15 months, and I know that the absolute best thing for teaching a child to read is to sit down with them and read as much as possible right from infancy. I do that pretty much every day, for a realistic 15-30 minutes. That doesn't sound like much, but I'm sure its more then the average (though probably far below the MDC average.)
My issue isn't that I'm intent on her reading at a crazy-young age. Of course I want her to do well, but if she starts reading at 5 or 6 that would be fine. My problem is that she goes to a babysitter during the day, and the sitter always has the T.V. on. This is the ONLY bad thing I can say about the babysitting arrangement, and no other daycare setting would be even close to as good as the current one. There is one other little boy who is 20 months, and he doesn't even glance at the TV, but my dd does. She has a pretty good attention span and is very mild mannored, and by her nature she pays attention. I don't need my kid paying attention to sponge bob and whatever other garbage they put on the kids channels!
It just seems like if she is going to be absorbing something from a TV screen then something like "baby can read" would be better then the repulsive "cartoons." This is if I could even convince the babysitter to change out the tv to a dvd.
Any thoughts?
My DD is 15 months, and I know that the absolute best thing for teaching a child to read is to sit down with them and read as much as possible right from infancy. I do that pretty much every day, for a realistic 15-30 minutes. That doesn't sound like much, but I'm sure its more then the average (though probably far below the MDC average.)
My issue isn't that I'm intent on her reading at a crazy-young age. Of course I want her to do well, but if she starts reading at 5 or 6 that would be fine. My problem is that she goes to a babysitter during the day, and the sitter always has the T.V. on. This is the ONLY bad thing I can say about the babysitting arrangement, and no other daycare setting would be even close to as good as the current one. There is one other little boy who is 20 months, and he doesn't even glance at the TV, but my dd does. She has a pretty good attention span and is very mild mannored, and by her nature she pays attention. I don't need my kid paying attention to sponge bob and whatever other garbage they put on the kids channels!
It just seems like if she is going to be absorbing something from a TV screen then something like "baby can read" would be better then the repulsive "cartoons." This is if I could even convince the babysitter to change out the tv to a dvd.
Any thoughts?
