Any1 Used My Baby Can Read?

yes you can start now the sooner the better dont listen to people who say its not agood thing its amazing I believe my daughter that is two can outsmart any kindergarten student because of it.

Stay far away from programs that try to teach your child skills their brains are not prepared for. Your baby will learn much more by playing, interacting with humans, and exploring her world her way.

I don't know a single legitimate educator who would endorse a program like this. It's a money-making scheme designed to appeal to parents' desire to brag about their babies, or prepare them (inappropriately) for their futures as great scholars.

There are tons of other posts on this program. I'm sure there is a way that you can go back and look at all of those.
There are people that have used it and think it is a good idea. I have serious oposition to the program. I am now a stay at home mom but I was a first grade teacher for quite a few years and there is NO way I would ever expose my daughter to this program.
It teaches using the wholistic word reading approach. This was a common approach in the 70s and early 80s but has sense been done away with in most, if not all, schools in the US. The program will probably teach a small child to recognize words and common letter combinations, however it will set a child up for difficulites later on, when words stop being so regular and common. The English language is a difficult one to teach, this program will make it harder in the long run. There is a reason that school have switched to a phonetical approach to teaching reading. If you are desperate to buy a teaching video, you would be better off with meet the letters, meet the sight words, or plain old Hooked on Phonics. I really don't feel that young children need to learn to read before they are a year old. Just spend time talking, playing, reading, and enjoying your little one without forcing him to grow up to fast.

many teachers told me that they have to re -teach the kids how to actually read when they get to K. Surely it looks like baby is reading, but they just memorize it.

Total waste of money. It encourages you to NOT read with your baby, but sit them in front of a tv watching stupid dvds. Kids need to be read to and interacted with and loved. This program does none of that.

My son's first word was K-Mart as we drove by one (he saw the sign). He was 6 months old. He had seen it on TV and memorized it. I was blown away by that. I had been using homemade flash cards. He did not recognize any other words. BTW K-Mart was not one of the flash cards. Children learn what they find interesting. Make your own cards and read to him. My son could read books by the time he was 4 years old. I attribute that to the thousands of books I read to him and let him watch me read.

This is a joke, right? Your child is TWO MONTHS OLD. You should be enjoying your child, not forcing some stupid memorization program on them that they can't even comprehend at this stage. The program is a waste & a joke to begin with, but at two months? Wow. Read to your child, that's the best advice.

It's not reading, it's memorization.

Just don't do it. Those other ladies have the right info and all I've seen is flash cards which you yourself can make or go to the store and get some for less then $5. AND sitting a child in front of the tv which in the long run does no good.
If you really want to teach your child things, teach them things a baby should reading will happen and should happen at an age appropriate time like the previous posts. My sister, brother and now nephew were early learners and are very bored in school My older brother was so bored that he became a trouble maker and the school refused to bump him up a grade because he was a trouble maker (a horrible circle to be caught in), my sister was bored but did ok, and now my nephew is having to jump through a thousand hoops just to get into kindergarten a year early, which is GREAT! But my sister is having to prove that he is ready and he is shy so proving it has been hard.

NEVER, EVER use this awful program! It is a gimmick to try to get your money. It will screw up your kid's brain becasue it builds it the wrong way from the way it is supposed to be built and this leads to learning disabilites in the future. Leave him on his tummy to play as much as you can. That's all he needs to develop every system he has including visual, auditory, vestibular, strength, endurance, fine motor, gross motor, intelligence, jaw strength, shoulder arm and hand strength for handwriting. Do not buy into this nonsense! You will make your kid have a brain imbalance!

do not waste your money

Hi! I am wondering if you are like me, so excited to have this new baby...but wanting so much to do something with and for them, and they don't do very much at two months. My son is two now and he loves to 'read' and be read to. When he 'reads' on his own he is really just imitating his father and I. Sometimes he will just pull a pile of books off the shelf and look through them quietly, but most of the time he will recite the text as he remembers it with each page. This is an important and lovely part of his development as a reader. I was asked several times (being an educator) if I was going to use the your baby can read program. I would answer no, for the reasons many mothers have shared below.Instead I started by reading aloud to him. Books for him or books that I was reading. What you can start, if you are interested, is signing. At two months old your baby won't have the motor skills to sign yet, but in the class I took there were many parents of newborns and the instructor said it was great to start that young. Anyway, good luck with your new baby. Time flies by so quickly and they develop so rapidly the first few months and years. Enjoy!

I read the previous posts and I agree with all of them. It just seems so forced and unnatural. My mom read to me every night when I was a kid and I did just fine - one of the smarter kids in the class while not being "weird". Now I have a 3-year-old daughter and we read together both at nap time and bed time. She has always been naturally very curious about letters and numbers, just from me reading stories to her (and maybe some Sesame Street, I must admit). She has alphabet letter puzzles and fridge magnets. She has been reciting the alphabet and recognizing both the big and small letters since she turned 2. She tries to count everything she can. She's starting to count to 10 in Spanish (yay, Dora!). She's getting more interested in how the letters come together to make words. She recognizes places like McDonald's, Kroger (local grocery store chain), Walmart plus stop signs. The stories are whatever she picks and often she picks the same ones over and over (Go Dog Go with Green Eggs and Ham, anyone?) and that's okay. All this without 1 flash card or DVD being whipped out.

The point is you want them to associate reading with pleasure and to enjoy it. If they are having fun, they will learn, and in such a much more positive way. And, like Riley J. put it, do you really want your preschooler reading signs like "Candy", "Liquor" and "Live Nude Girls"?