Anyone Out There Use the Your Baby Can Read DVD Series?

What a terrible notion! Your baby is busy learning so many other age-appropriate lessons, and she will be busy with learning other things for some years before she's ready to learn to read. Eventually she will indicate she's ready: when she sees you reading, and wants to climb in your lap and pretend she's reading, or when you are reading to her and she takes the book away and wants to "do it herself," then she's probably ready.

Some kids, particularly girls, are ready to start learning to read when they're four or five. Most kids, however, are just not developmentally ready until they are six or seven years old. As long as she sees you reading for pleasure, and you provide her with plenty of books which you enjoy reading to her, she will want to learn when the time is right. If you push her to learn to read before she is ready, you will be taking time and focus away from other developmental lessons she should be occupied with learning. And if you push her, she may decide that reading is just a chore.

YES! I absolutely love this program. My daughter is 10 months old now. She began watching the dvds @ 3 months as suggested & loves them! It is a set with 5 dvds that you start with & move on the to the next one after a certain amount of time. The babies learn to communicate & recognize the basic words that you are saying to them or teaching them thru your speech more then the reading part until they are older. I registered for this & got it for my baby shower last year when it was just the dvds & not all the extras they have now which look like great follow up to the dvd watching. This is definitely one of the best things I have exposed my daughter to. She has learned SO much from watching & they are really entertaining dvds with music, poems & words. She knows how to clap her hands, put her arms up, is able to point to different parts of her body & understands the meanings of most of the words in the dvds. It is awesome, I could go on & on about how wonderful this product is. If you want mote specific questions answered email me, I'd be happy to answer. So the answer is YES make the investment in it. This is all my daughter watches as far as tv goes & it is so educational I actually feel bad if I miss a day of her watching it since we have seen so many results with her & she just smiles & squeals when it comes on....YES YES YES buy it! Even if you don't have time to have her watch it daily, she will enjoy it when ever you do put it on & it is so neat when one day she just breaks out something she only learned there like the day I came in to the room with her watching it & she was clapping her hands when the dvd was showing the word & asking her to clap her hands...so cool!

Hi J.,
I just saw your request; don't know how I missed this one! I got the DVD series when my son was about 9mos or so. He really has enjoyed it, and it gave me something educational to put on if I needed 20min to get something else done. I will say that after about 4mos of the videos, he seemedto be a little 'tired' of them, so I skip a few days or let him watch something else if he has to. I also have a signing set that I really recommend. "Signing Time"; they have fun music and since I already taught my son quite a few signs, he loves it. they are all educational and that way I don't feel as guilty putting something on once or twice a day. (especially as your child gives up naps and you feel like you have nothing to entertain with!) I will say, we started reading as a newborn, and he LOVES books, and caught on to signing after doing it for around 6mos. But now he talks so much and has a great vocabulary at 18mos... everyone is pretty amazed. I'm just glad he likes them and I don't think it 'pushes' them to learn, just helps and keeps things fun. (Better than just putting 'Dora' or a cartoon on!) Good luck!

I've never seen or heard of this product before so I cannot tell you if it works or not. But I will tell you what worked for me. Leapfrog. When my boy was about 2, I bought the Leapfrog Letter Factory, Words Factory and Math Factory DVDs and I had him watch it instead of TV. He loved them so much, he watched it over and over and by the time he was 2.5, he was able to start writing and sounding out each letter. By the time he was 3, he was writing small letters and was able to put the letters together to make a word (easy words). Of course, I was totally involved in helping him from the beginning but it was awesome to see how much interest he showed. Now, he's 4 and is able to recognize a lot of words by sight (small and big) and whenever he asks me, "mommy, what does that say?" I tell him to sound it out himself and he does. I haven't had to buy birthday or holiday cards for family and friends since he was 3!

One advice I can give is, don't rush your girl into reading or writing or whatever. All the kids will learn once they start preschool and kindergarten so don't push her too hard. The only reason I started so young is b/c my boy needs constant stimulation so I'm always trying to "stimulate" his mind w/out going overboard. Good luck to you.

Never heard of it. My own humble opinion is that helping your child develop a LOVE of reading is more important than the learning to read itself. So instead of buying the DVD series, I'd opt to spend time at the local library, introduce your DD to age-appropriate picture books, go to your library's lap-sit and storytimes, read to her, and if you need a 'break' most libraries also have popular children's books on cassettes and/or CD's (as she gets older, this can be a fun "read-along" activity for her).

My 7YO twins have been regulars at our local public library since before they could walk (it wasn't unusual for us to be there 2 or 3 times in a single week), and it's still one of their favorite places. I started reading to them practically since they were born (short board books like Sandra Boynton's "Moo, Baa, La La La" and "Red Hat, Blue Hat" are great starters). For the first 8-10 months or so it was hard to tell if they were really paying attention but once they did, it quickly became one of their favorite activities. They've become avid readers themselves, and I still read to them at least every night before bedtime