Has Anyone Else Used Your Baby Can Read Program?

I agree with CAWriterMom. I am a teacher as well and would never use the program. I considered it once after watching an informercial, they are so convincing. Not that it doesn't work as they say it does, but it is not how children are traditionally taught in school. Once these awesome readers get into school and are asked to break down words into phonemes, they are unable to do so. It will also make it more challenging for them to learn how to spell. I am teaching my son to read the traditional way, just because I believe that it is the best way. I think children are pushed too hard these days to do things that they are developmentally not ready for.

It is noble of any parent to want their child to excell and be ahead of the crowd. That said, it can be damaging as the previous comment writers have expressed.

I have a question for you. What would be the benefit of your daughter reading early? After all, just because she can read, doesn't mean she will understand. For example, I can read the encyclopedia of neurophysics but not much is going to make sense to me. Another example is Harry Potter. Kids at age 5 and 6 are reading it but they are missing the beautiful nuances of the human condition expressed in the tale. Harry Potter books are meant for 10 and 11 year olds to grasp concepts. My point is that kids have to be cognitively and developmentally ready to be readers.
Best wishes to both of you.

This program is extremely detrimental to a developing brain. Please do not consider it. The reason why is because the areas of the brain that should get super strong on a child are the sensory motor parts, the right brain. What this does is make them left brain causing a huge imbalance by the time they go to school and cannot apply or process the information they are supposed to learn naturally. What you are doing in fact is bypassing the bottom parts of the brain and going right to the top (cortex) to learn prematurally. It is not a good idea at all and it will lead to learning struggles in the future. Let your children run, jump, play, hang, crawl, wrestle, swim, spin, and move all day long. Let them develop their vision by playing outdoors and not letting them watch screens. Baby Can Read is a company trying to make money off unsuspecting parents....they are not looking out for the best methods of development. This is not a component that any child needs before the age of 5 or 6. Strengthen auditory processing, not visual since classrooms are auditory. Believe me you don't want your child ending up with ADHD or similar diagnosis. Let them grow up the way we did.

I completely agree with the previous post. You child is not learning how to read, s/he is learning how to memorize. A child needs phonics - teaching them how the letters sound and how to sound out entire words. When a child memorizes words, they are not learning the skills to sound out words they do not recognize.

Why the rush anyway? Let babies be babies, there is no reason why a baby should be reading. Parents should be reading TO babies. It is important for them to start to recognize rhyming and to look at the pictures and listen to the words.

I would not waste my money on this. I would either get a library card and take out actual books, or go to the bookstore and buy some books!!

I hope that didn't come across as harsh, I didn't mean it to be. It is just that I was a second grade teacher and feel pretty strongly against this type of program.

I looked into it...my son is 28 mos & very bright (can count to 10 in English/Spanish, knows all colors/shapes, large vocabulary, knows his abc's, etc.), but imo, it's a waste of money. As others have stated, it only teaches sight words, not actual reading skills. Also, the things you have listed that your daughter knows...well, so does my son, and he never did the Baby Can Read program. It's very expensive, boring for kids, and unrealistic in expectations (absolutely no other tv besides these videos? please.) But if you're happy with it, that's great! To each their own...I just personally wouldn't because I don't think it's worth it.

I purchased this and started to notice my son recognizing words, but you have to be really committed and use this twice everyday. It's a lot of work for the parents as well. My son has apraxia speech delay involving oral muscles and it helps but I have to be more persistant with it to see better results. So those moms may have not been using it as directed and as often as u giving different results.

You have to use it everyday and be consistent. People assume that a few sessions and they read. how long before your daughter was reading and how old was she?
I want to buy it too! I do read with them but heard that had some great stuff!

M.

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I seen the same commercial and was considering it too here is what I noticed these babys were reading at 9 months babys can't talk at 9 months theywere reading at 12 months most babies cant talk at 12 months my personal opinion from the commercial is it is bogus.

I used it - my child was bored beyond belief and learned nothing from it. Wate of $ IMO.

My SIL is a teacher and advises against the system. Apparently, it's quite clear when kids have used this system and she says they fall behind in school because they have to be retrained to read properly. We just did traditional reading preparation with our children and they've done great.

Yeah i'm not sure I'd ever use this. I considered it, but then I realized that they were sitting in front of the tv which I'm not comfortable with. I also belive that they are just lerning what the word is and not broken down into letters and sounds. BUT that is my opinion.