How to Teach Your Baby to Read (The Gentle Revolution Series)

by Glenn Doman

It seemed clear that we had, at the very least, underestimated every child's potential.

We were absolutely convinced that tiny kids could learn absolutely anything if we were smart enough to teach it properly.

The above is precisely what we have done with written language. We have made it too small for the child to "see and understand" it.

While the child is displaying an electronic, astronomical, and biological curiosity, we too often tell him to run along and play with his toys.

Learning is also the greatest game in life, and the most fun.

Nothing, just nothing, can compare with his family's undivided attention, and if he had his way that's the way he'd arrange it.

There is a fail-safe law you must never forget. It is this: If you aren't having a wonderful time and your child isn't having a wonderful time-stop. You are doing something wrong.

Neatness and legibility are far more important than perfection.

Start out ahead, stay ahead, stop, and reorganize if you must, but don't show old materials over and over again.

The first step in teaching your child to read begins with the use of just fifteen words. When your child has learned these fifteen words he is ready to progress to the vocabularies themselves.

Avoid presenting consecutively two words that begin with the same letter. Hair, hand, and head all begin with h and therefore should not be taught consecutively. Occasionally a child will leap to the conclusion that hair is hand because the words both begin with h and are similar in appearance.

The fact that your child is too young to speak and is not able to say his reading words does not negate the fact that you are increasing and enriching his language by teaching him to read.

Oh! What a power is motherhood!