Learning Programs On TV

You mean the child reading one??

or the maths/memory one?

they seem to be advertised a lot at the moment. I am not sold on them. IMO you are better off spending the quality time with your child doing activities/reading/learning.

Yea the ad kind of made me LOL

It says the girl knew over 500 words at 19 months. For gods sake let children be children and learn on there own.

And why does a child under 2 need to read??

Sorry thats my opinion on it anyway.

amme_eilyk wrote: or the maths/memory one? they seem to be advertised a lot at the moment. I am not sold on them. IMO you are better off spending the quality time with your child doing activities/reading/learning.

agree 100%!! you don't need to spend a heap to teach ya kids literacy and numeracy skills... pens, paper, some basic books and you're set

nzpiper wrote: Or just let your child watch playhouse disney. I swear my boys learnt to count from Numberjacks and as for reading.....Word world!

IMHO the educational value of those TV programmes is pretty debatable... I have nothing at all against my kids watching that kind of thing but I see it as purely entertainment. Numberjacks introduces some ridiculous concepts for preschool children (e.g. estimating!!) and word world (which I just loathe ) has often unrecognisable capital letters in the shapes of animals... I think it would be very challenging for a child to learn to read from that, and if they did they will only be reading uppercase...

eta - I mean no offence NZPiper - those programmes just annoy me ... it's great that your kiddies have learnt something from them !

Edited by freckle

I have thought about it but mainly cos I like the look of the flash cards (which I can probably buy somewhere else)

The DVD looks good in that they say the word, baby sees the word and then sees someone doing that thing- e.g clapping. However reading reviews on the net the DVD's are boring and didnt hold the kids attentions.

I don't see anything wrong with using tools like that to help your child learn, my girl loves sitting down reading books with me and I think she would really enjoy flash cards. I think its more about making learning fun and what better age to instill that than before they start school.

My Dad (who lives in The States) sent over the entire Your Baby Can Read programme for Hannah's first birthday (I didn't ask for it). it's sat, unopened, in a cupboard since then (2 years). I'd forgotten about it until I saw the infomoercial the other day.

I decided to get it out and see how Hannah liked it.
She loves the flash cards and books, they're neat.

But the DVDs are P A I N F U L.
Bad American accents and cheesy music.
So unless you want your child to talk with an American accent I'd give it a miss
Hannah enjoys the DVDs, but they're a bit babyish for her.. more suited to the under 2s, I think.

I wouldn't spend my money on that stuff. Hannah's a TV watcher and loves Disney/Pixar movies.
By 12 months she had about 50 words. By 2 she was talking in 5 word sentences...

But she does love the books and flashcards.

$399

Dam $399 , never catch wind of that on the ad , I suppose i could make the flash cards my self if i wanted to head down that road

I sing to Ella ( try to ) , i remember when i was a little boy we got taught rhymes for maths and English couldn't for the life of me remember them now shouldn't be to hard to find them

Lily's only 10mo but she already knows which books are her fave, I line them up in front of her and she knows which cover to pick and even points to objects on the page. (The Little Yellow Digger - she'll point out the diggers, the dog...) while she's not reading the words, she's reading the pictures and is def taking it in.

Ill be reading to Ella , I have heaps of children books and nursery rhymes books , i pretty much have the hole collection of those books with the Gold spine from the 80's , i kept them for this purpose but only problem is they are still in Hamilton i will have to sort that out after xmas .