OT: Give Your Child a Superior Mind

[Guest guest]

Just because I wish someone had told me these things exist a few years

ago... Siegfried Engelmann wrote the book " Teach Your Child to Read in

100 Easy Lessons " that has gotten wonderful reviews that it actually

works and creates good readers. He's written another book " Give Your

Child a Superior Mind " that actually teaches parents how to play with

their preschoolers to help them learn amazing things at early ages. I

know a lot of people are against pushing the little ones, but still I

think the ability to teach/play with our young is becoming a lost art

as so many turn them over to day care centers. I've seen other

people's kids who amazed me with their abilities and they didn't really

seem pushed. I felt like with my kids I was re-inventing the wheel -

my mom was raised in orphanages and had to figure out a lot on her own;

being raised with her rustic skills left a lot for me to figure out as

well.

[Guest guest]

yeah, i am just now reading Englemann's book, but i don't know if i will even

need it at this point. my son just turned 3 and he is already sounding out

words. he knows his alphabet in both English and French forwards and backwards

and can determine the beginning sounds of words. he is writing his letters and

numbers on his magnadoodle or with chalk on the driveway as well. he can count

up into the hundreds, also in French, and he is very good at memory type games.

this is basically all him. he is the one who comes up with what he wants to

do/learn and we just guide him along. i think it all stems from his father who

is very imaginitive and engaging and from birth has been instrumental in showing

our son everything in his environment. (i do this too, but i don't know if i am

as good at it. ) they make up games, stories etc and he does not watch tv.

practically every moment of the day is spent in engaging in some form of

learning--at this point it just comes naturally to us. i am planning on

homeschooling him and the Curriculum appeals to me b/c it is a

self-teaching program and i think my son already seems perfect for that. i used

to be afraid that he was learning too much at such a young age, but Gatto says

all kids have that potential and he will just have that much more of a base to

work with as he gets older.

amanda

Just because I wish someone had told me these things exist a few years

ago... Siegfried Engelmann wrote the book " Teach Your Child to Read in

100 Easy Lessons " that has gotten wonderful reviews that it actually

works and creates good readers. He's written another book " Give Your

Child a Superior Mind " that actually teaches parents how to play with

their preschoolers to help them learn amazing things at early ages.

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