Your Baby Can Read

We have them. We did not use them to teach my kids to read, but my daughter was speech delayed and they really helped her with that. My son liked them too but he did not learn to read from them. They seemed to like them for entertainment and it really helped with the speech delay.

Hey there, Sarah.

I have purchased these DVDs and was a little disappointed in the mere fact that they were unlike what I had hoped.

The Titzer method is not new. It was actually derived from the Glenn Doman Method, just put on film. An example of this is in Titzer’s home videos with his daughter. As you can clearly see the way he approached this was not thru DVDs…but rather large flash cards with ‘red’ print which is the Glenn Doman Method.

So needless, his own child’s success was predicated upon the Glenn Doman Method and not from his own.

The DVDs are too busy & flashy and do not stick to the same principles by which he taught his own daughter.

If you are really wanting to teach your child to read (& are willing & able to take the time to implement the method) I would highly recommend the Glenn Doman's. It obviously works (look at Titzer’s daughter) and it is exceptionally reasonable to do so as opposed to the alternative.

You can ck out more about Glenn Doman here: http://www.acceleratedlearningmethods.com/doman-method.html

The best to you & your adventures in reading!
~D.

Ditto to what the first two ladies have said.

I completely understand your wanting to give your kiddo a head start, however as a mother and teacher (my BA is in Early Childhood Education), let it be natural. I guarantee if you have books in your home, a varitey of toys, if you read to your kids, sing to them, talk to them and interact with them...they will be fine! That is already such a head start compared to lots of kids. I taught in a school where 80% had English as their second language. Many of the kindergartners that were coming in had never seen a book or been read to. I know that is the extreme, but if you do the above things THAT is everything your kid needs to learn to read when they go to school. Of course when you're reading with your kids and just doing normal everyday things talk about sounds and letters. Talk about colors and shapes. I am sure you do that stuff already, it is just a motherly instinct.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is just let your kids be kids. That is the best thing you can do for them before they head to school. There is plenty of time in life to worry about academic stuff, not enough time to be a kid.
~L.

Sarah,
I got it for my older son when he was about a year. I, as most people, was really excited about it for a week and then the DVD's just sat and gathered dust. Would they have worked? I'm going to try again with my second son, he's 10 months old now. I don't see any harm and I am not motivated by the fear of being behind. I think that the earlier a child can communicate with you, the happier he will be.
If you can get it inexpensively I would at least try it. Maybe your child just won't be interested, maybe he will really take to it.
Good luck!

Hi Sarah,

I'll just add my 2 cents that the whole teaching kids to read (when how etc) is one filled with controversy. Formal instruction too soon has been shown to be harmful. Finland and some other European countries start quite late...and have fewer reading problems with kids as they progress through school. (Finland outscores all-by the way PISA test)
But stuff for infants and toddlers is usually play-based. It is said that speaking reading and writing are actually more intertwined than a progression...I've seen some of that...but at what age/developmental level is another matter.
I guess I have to ask what the point of such a program is? Are we so concerned about our children having a head academic start? If so I add it to the fear-based stuff (my child will be behind!! Horrors!) pitched to us parents way too much. If it has been proved a safe form of enrichment I don't see it as so harmful.
Are there any independent reviews (expert and customer) and reports about short and long term effects of this? I'd be more curious to see if there were any negative associations.
Buyer beware. I tend to proceed with caution. Good luck!

Funny, I watched a bit of that infomercial yesterday too... I wasn't "sold"! LOL, those were just some really smart attentive kids that were not the norm in my opinion. My son won't even sit still long enough to look at a flash card, and he has no interest in the TV at 17 months.

there are good things and bad things. my husband insisted of buying it for our grandson who we just got custody of. first of all the 14.95 offer is jsut one cd and one book of cards. youreally need the whole thing and it is about 250. we split that with the other set of grandparents who have Charlie on the weekends. heis 17 months. his attention span is about 10 to 15 minutes. the entire cd is about 22 mintues so we find oursleves doing it in several sessions. he has to have a perfectly wuiet room with no distractions so i remove all toys and put the dogs away when we are doing it. so i guess its different for each child. you are supposed to do it 3 times a day so we dont do it as ordered all the time. i want it to be fun and sometimes we go to the park for several hours instead. ive had it fo2 months and his vocabulary has increased somuch. henow has about 75 word vocabulary. sitll nto recongizing the words or reading per say but he reconginses the pictures. i think it goes too fast for him to really concentrate on the letters and maybe thats the way it should be . idont know how to rewind a cd yet because im technologically challenged. he likes it sometimes but sometimes he will ahve nothing to do with it. it comes with a bunch of books he really loves even though i couls have gottne similar ones at the bookstore for a lot less. we use those books to potty train. we read them when he is sitting on the potty and it makes him sit there longer. so there is a dual prupose. the pull out cards are also somethng he really likes because he gets to do something and participate. so at this time he is not reading after two minths but i am also not doing it as they say you should. i guess also it takes a lot fo time and commitment to be consistent with the program. some moms dont have that much time or more
with my youngest son i jsut read to him all the time because he loved books.he always carried a little back pack ful of books around wherever he went . he was my quiet kid. he was reading on his won by age three and by age 4 he was reading chapter books. i didnt really follow any program i jsut follwed his lead. he is very inquisitive and asked a lot of questions but i know charlie is nothing like him he likes to run around all day long and do things and touch things.

I purchased the whole program a few weeks ago. My almost 3 year old has the first set of words down pretty good. My 13 month old loves it, but I can't tell what he knows yet. We are not following the instructions perfectly. I'm making it a priority to ensure we doing the best we can, but it's difficult to have the kids watch the video 1 to 2 times daily along with doing the cards, etc. But they are still learning!