Welcome! I'm starting this blog to chronicle our journey of using Your Baby Can Read. We have 2 children one has just completed Kindergarten and is on his journey to learning to read right now as well. You see I married my sweet husband when the eldest was 2 years old. We now have a child together who will be 18 months on July 4th.
I work at a daycare and was watching other children begin speaking earlier than my child. I know this is not necessarily the norm but as a teacher I tend to want him to 'catch up'. He was a late walker, I consulted with an occupational therapist. He was walking within a month. He is a late teether. I read that it could be a vitamin deficiency. I change his diet. Wala, we have teeth.
I definitely do not want my 18 month old to start reading. If he does, that is great. I'm purely doing this to help introduce more vocabulary along with using the teachable moments that we encounter during the day. I ordered Volume One of the program for a mere 10 dollars through Walmart's website. We have had the program for two days. Here is how it has gone:
Day 1: We went on a steroid for a funky rash on his leg(by we, I mean "he". I'll refer to him that way a lot.). After getting his meds at the pharmacy, we went back to Site to Store to pick it up. We came home, had dinner, took our new steroid, got a bath and I thought we would replace some of story time with Your Baby Can Read. I started with the flashcards. He loved the first 3. Then he decided that he could bend those lovely flashcards back, mommy wouldn't let him, flashcard time was over.
New words learned that day: 'hi'(saying it, not reading it)
Day 2: Ok, honestly, we went to the grocery store. We got home late. Dear husband decided he needed to take the two boys on a walk. They returned when it was late. Little man ate his dinner, got a bath, we read a book and he went to sleep. We skipped the program tonight. Oh well, I have Friday off. We will do better.
New words learned that day: You know, he said 'wa wa high" as we walked past a fountain going into our daycare facility today. He has never done this before. I think maybe his daycare teacher has taught him this. I was a proud mama nonetheless.
