AS U LADIES KNOW KHEYMONI WILL BE 1 NEXT MONTH. SHE'S VERY SMART AS FAR AS KNOWING WHAT WE'RE SAYIN TO HER. U KNOW THE USUAL STUFF (NO, STOP, GIVE IT HERE, COME HERE, LET'S GO, ETC...ETC) I READ TO HER, SHE HAS VERY SMART. BASICALLY WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS...I'M READY TO START TEACHIN HER #'S, COLORS, ABC'S....SHE WON'T PAY ATTENTION TO ME LONG ENOUGH TO LISTEN. WHEN I READ TO HER I GIVE HER A BOOK TO PLAY WITH JUST SO SHE WILL SIT STILL AND LISTEN. EVEN THEN, SHE'S NOT PAYIN ATTENTION ME. IS IT TOO EARLY TO START TEACHIN HER THOSE THINGS SINCE SHE PAYS ME NO ATTENTION??
moni honey i don't think it's EVER too early to start teaching your children. just try not to "aggravate" her w/it.... you know what i'm saying, make it fun for her and she'll grow to like learning. OMG Laci has just turned 3 and aggravates the crap outta me to let her write her name and how to "draw" my name *etc*...she loves learning and sounds like your little one will too. just don't be discouraged if she don't pay attention too much right now, just do it when you can get her too. i know u'll both do great w/it. the fact that you are already thinking about it says that!!! Good luck dear! cindy
i started readin to her when i was pregnant. i don't do it as often as i NEED to b/c she doesn't pay attention. but i'm gonna start back and also follow through with teachin her other things. thank u for the advice.
it's never to early to teach her but it is to early to expect her to respond to what your teaching her and you probably just think she aint paying attention just keep doing what your doing and one day she will let it be known what she has learned good luck
yeah u're right... i'm expectin her to respond toooo soon. i mean i can't help it!! i want her to be realllllly smart. u said exactly what i'm feelin....thank u for the advice.
u can start introducing stuff to her even though she i not listening. Sometimes u may think she's not picking anything up, but later she's going to surprise u with what she know. I started teaching mine ABC's my taping the letters on the floor and having her sit on the letters or numbers. I know she wasn't going to pick them all up. And then i would read books with numbers. Sing the ABC's all day. Make counting fun! That's what i did. i thought she wasn't listening, but she knows alot now. DON"T PUSH HER CAUSE SHE WILL JUST GET FRUSTRATED! Let her at her own pace."
Never too early. But at her age, they do have short attention spans. If you can get her to sit for 5 mins or 10 thats great!
Also, Flash cards are good. My mom got me some when Kayla was around, and we would sit and go through them like it was a game we were playing. she loved it. I would sometimes do it when she was in her high chair and as she got older, I would even do it on the potty.
Now, RJ, No way!! LOL although since hes been about 2.5, he loves books, but only when he asks.
I bought Kayley a flash card flip book for babies and she loves it. Ryan loved his also and it is really helping her with her numbers. She doesn't respond for the colors for some reason yet. I would say something like that or even just counting things out to her. Like if she is playing with blocks. Pick one up and say one and then put it down and then pick up another one and say two. Oh yeah and I think I heard it is good to say one block, two blocks, and so on. She also really responded to animal books. Show her the animals and say it's name and then say "what does a cow say" and then say moo. lol. They really like that. Like the other moms said, she may not respond at first, but she will surprise and she will picking up more than you think. Kayley surprised me one day when I was giving ryan a warning. You know the one where you count to three. Well I got to number two and she blurted out three. It was to funny because I had no idea she had picked it up. That was before I was really working on her numbers.
Kids are like sponges! Rylee is almost 2 and they will never say or do anything that you want them to but out of the blue one day she will just all of a sudden know stuff??? LOL
thank u ladies. she has alot of dr. seuss books...i plan to get her more books and new toys. i love the learnin toys i'm gonna get plenty of those also. i'll just do my best and continue to work hard at it. thank u once again.
I think dr seuss may be a little too long, how about those little board books for babies. Aliviyah always liked the ones that had real babies and real families on them. These books have only one or 2 words per page.
Songs always help too. Kids love songs, they really like you to make up songs for things. This helps them pick up things too.
Reading, talking to them, talking about everything, such as see the dog, the dog is brown, that sort of thing helps them learn the colors and stuff
yeah those dr. seuss books are verrrry long!!! she loves music!!! i even made up a song just for her...it's so cute! but i'll try the different ideas. thanks again.
I dont think you should wait to teach her.. Just do it. I was teaching TJ at months.... Call me crazy but it worked. He is so intelligent sometimes I can believe it myself! Bad thing is I dont even read to him. I bought him BRAINY BABY Q cards from walgreens (for $3) when he was like 8 months. He loves them and was saying all of the animals when he was 13 months! Try to make if fun for her. Also BABY FIRST TV on direct TV is the BEST thing EVER!!! Trust me.. if you are able to get it, get it.. you wont be sorry!!
I started with Kendle at Birth. I would lay on the floor with her and read a book, holding it over our heads in the air, so she could see it and listen. I had her on the floor most of the time, and had mirrors, a video camera, ect on her, as well as some educational program playing in the background-like Dora, or Sesame Street. I started flash cards with her early...just something to show her...
She was walking by 6 months and saying full sentences at 1 year old.
Adi, I didn't work with as much, and he has no CLUE what color is what, or much about numbers or his ABC's or shapes...he knows a few...but not much.
I wish I would have done him like I did Kendle.
Good Luck...she may know more than she is letting on she knows! lol Kids are good at that!
she has a book in her hand now!! i've turned on Dora for her...she's not much of a cartoon baby!!! i can't wrap my mind around that..lol she'll watch for a few minutes and then she takes off. she will watch pretty much anything but cartoons. funny huh??!!
I love Baby First on Directv. I got it for Kayley and she loves it! She didn't really pay attention to cartoons when she was around that age either. She may start liking them before long.
Tavarri is not much into cartoons either. he loves baby first TV though! Dora is for older kids thats why she maybe not be so much into it! You can also try the little Einstein DVDs and see how that works. But if you can switch to baby first because they are really good at what they do. They also sell dvds but its like $10 month with direct. I dont know how much it is with dish network. Here is a link so you can see what its about! Just click on each one and it will show you a little sample
