Your Baby Can Read!
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Your Baby Can Read!
April 16, 2010 By 9 Comments
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My daughter is 2.5 years old. We are bringing her up as trilingual. I purchased the product to help her with her English. She is fluent-bilingual in my husband’s and my mother tongue, but not that much in English yet. We have been using the DVDs for the past couple of weeks. She likes them and her English and word/spelling recognition are improving by the minute. I am very happy with the results.
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My son has been watching this series of DVD’s since he was 4 months old. He is now 2 1/2 and can read over 500 words. We stopped counting at 500! He can read any word we put in front of him. He knows his ABC’s and can count to 100. He is also rapidly learning Spanish and German. I KNOW that it is because of these DVD’s that he is so far advanced for his age. He often reads words that we didn’t even know that he knew. These DVD’s teach the pattern of reading and learning. I know that all children would benefit greatly from watching these DVD’s. I recommend these DVD’s to all parents! They are worth every penny!
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I started showing these DVDs to my daughter when she was 7 months. She was reading from flashcards at 1, sounding out words at 18 months and reading books at 2. My 8 month old is watching them now and she really enjoys them. She smiles and waves her arms.
My older child is now 3. One thing that amazes me is that she has better reading skills than 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders I have heard reading. I’m not sure if learning earlier improves reading ability or if there is something about this method.
When children learn phonics at school they go through drills to learn the sounds of each letter. Sounding out letters is slow and definitely not a fun way to learn to read. It could be enough to kill a child’s love of reading. A child who watches these DVDs figures out letter sounds on their own. As Titzer’s website says, if a child knows bat, cat, house and hippo they can figure out the word hat.
When my daughter comes across new one syllable words she can quickly figure them out. When she comes across a word with multiple syllables she pronounces each syllable. She never has to sound out the individual letters. I think this is why she reads much better than older kids who have learned using the traditional phonics method. She can figure out unfamilar words much more quickly. As a result, she reads more quickly and can focus on the story instead of focusing on the individual words. This makes reading more enjoyable.
Anyway, I’m very impressed with these DVDs and glad that my children won’t have to learn to read using the traditional phonics method.
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I have been showing these dvds to my now 17 month old daughter for 4 weeks now, and she absolutely loves them. We’re on to the 2nd dvd, started yesterday, and today for the 1st time she made a noise like a dog when she saw the word dog written down. I know it’s working and am really excited to see how it develops. Wish I’d known about this system for my other kids.
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While I understand that maybe this product is not for everyone, we experienced awesome results. My son was a preemie, born 6 weeks early and suffered a language delay. He was diagnosed with Sensory Processing/Integrative Disorder earlier this year. For Christmas last year, when my son was 2, I purchased this set with the idea that if he did not really like it, I could return it. We are NOT big on TV in our house and do not even have cable but I thought he could have a few simple educational videos. We never played it twice a day, once at the most and sometimes would even skip a few days. But the results were fantastic. He went from saying maybe 5 words to finally opening up and saying not just a lot more words, but complete sentences as well. Within days he actually started repeating the words back on the TV and within the first few weeks he was definitely recognizing the words in the accompanying books and flash cards. Within a month, he could identify every letter in the entire alphabet and began to read words not included in the program. It also threw him wholeheartedly into a love of books and now a day does not go by that we don’t read together. He will amuse himself for hours on end with all of the books in his room.
I am just thankful because he was extremely frustrated before we started the program with his inability to use words to express himself. I feel that the program helped him to make necessary connections in his brain that were not there before. He still has some speech and behavior problems and a slight impediment but other than that I am amazed at how far he has come since I introduced him to this program. I don’t think the program can hurt anything and at the best it can make a miracle!
Something I wanted to point out is that it is important that you share as much of the videos as possible with your child at the beginning. Simply inserting the DVD and expecting instant results is not recommended.
I saw some reviews say that the videos were “boring”. I don’t feel that to be true. They are actually more or less “simple” which is the way it should be and does not overload your child’s brain with filler images and graphics.
As for the company, I had no problems with customer service. I ordered it at the height of the Christmas season and got it right away and chose the monthly billing method so I did not have to plop down so much money at once.
Overall, I think this is an excellent product and teaching tool.
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We got this set of DVDs and flashcards as a gift. Started my son on the starter DVD at 11 months – about every other day. He was very interested in the DVDs but it didn’t seem like he was “learning” anything so I stopped showing him the DVDs after a few months. One day when he was around 14 months, he found the flashcard for “hi” in a drawer and brought it to me and said “hi.” I was flabbergasted. So we started the DVDs again and he began learning the words in earnest around 16 months. By age 17 months I made more flashcards for him because he had already learned all the ones provided in the kit. He watches the DVDs about every other day or every two days. So far he has only seen the starter and #1.
This is a system of word memorization – the child is basically memorizing the shape of the word. I have noticed that even if my son doesn’t recognize a new word, he does make guesses at the word which contain some of the right sounds. So over time, I am assuming he’ll make the connections to be able to read phonetically. There are portions of the DVDs that go through phonics.
His success at “reading” through this system has been dependent on the flashcards and parent interaction. When I go through the flashcards, I point out the letters and sounds. I don’t think that you can reasonably expect a child to learn from the DVD alone.
My husband calls this a “parlor trick” and in a way, that is a true. But it is exciting to see our son reading and even more enjoyable to see him develop a keen interest in learning. He points to the cards now because he wants to go through them with me.
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…he has learned how to clap correctly, and he started saying the word cat. (we don’t have a cat so I know that’s where he’s learning it… whenever he sees a neighborhood cat he yells out the word cat and points)
I started showing him the first video twice a day for just over 3 weeks now. The Dr. says that it will take them a while to learn the first words, but I’m trying not to set my sites real high. I do think this will at the very least help my son learn that letters aren’t just an ABC song, they relate to everything around us.
I love to watch it with him because it’s a really fun video; I even hear my husband humming the catchy music. I can’t wait to move on to the next video to see how the system progresses.
This video is the simplest system to use. I actually read the directions 4 times because I thought I was missing something. He also LOVES to play with the slide cards. It’s so much fun that if he does learn how to read it won’t seem right because there’s little work involved; AND if he doesn’t, oh well, at least it was fun!! I say buy these tapes for the mere fact that it’s educational and it will hold his attention (and mine for that matter) and if something more comes of it, it’s an added plus. I suggest buying them for a more reasonable price than on the infomercial though.
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i ordered this about one month ago and my daughter has been watching it for the past month. So far she has learned where her mouth, eyes, toes and arms are, arms up and down … which i’m super excited about is whenever i ask her and she shows me where they are. I cant believe this actually works so far and btw my daughter just turned 1 and she’s really starting to communicate more with her words now. I can say my daughter is a very active child, she’s always moving around but when its time for the video she sits so still and anticipates. I think this video is pretty great so far but she did get a little bored towards the end of the month of watching the first video. She would walk away and look at the screen and repeat, i wasnt sure why she did that but as we started the second video last friday, again she was glued to the screen and didnt move an inch. She especially loves it when i get physical along with the video, like when the video says crawl, i get down on the floor and crawl, she cracks up. SO we’ll see how far along she progresses at the end of the second video. There are 5 videos total. Also, i love the sliding word cards.. Its a card with a word on it and when you slide the card open, there’s a picture of something that goes along with the word. Thats a must have for me.
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Your Baby Can Read gets 5 Stars for jerking the hell out of me still to the date of this review! I saw the infomercial and was impressed like most that saw it on TV. I ordered the kit at its advertised 30 day trial period cost of $14.95, and was told if I decided to keep it, I would be billed in 3-4 monthly installments of $66.50. While awaiting the kit, I read some Amazon customer reviews from the best to the worst. I was enlightened to the teaching model used (see & say), and how it would cause problems later on for my child around 4th-5th grade due to the teaching method. When my kit arrived, I opened it to read for myself about how the teaching/learning method was achieved, and the customer review was accurate. I immediately phoned them, explained that I was returning it and to make a note of that in my file. I was the offered a 33% discount to keep the system. I explained to the operator that it wasn’t about the cost, but the educational methods implemented that I choose not to expose my child to. I was then given the info needed to properly reference and return the package. I returned the package promptly by U.S. Post Office, certified, signature required, and the ability for it to be tracked. Needless to say, I received confirmation shortly after, where, what time, and who signed for receiving my return. When I called the company to follow up, I was told they hadn’t received it yet. The next time I called to follow up, I was told it must be processing in the system. I then received a letter from my bank that my account was negative due to Your Baby Can Read billing me $66.50. They never billed the trial fee of $14.95. Each attempt from them also resulted in bounce check fee’s of $29 EACH totaling $298! To this day, they are still attempting to bill me for a product that I returned before the trial period. I also taped our conversation of my initial call with them. I would not recommend doing business with them. However, most people have to learn the hard way!