Posted on 07/16/2012 11:35:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Edited on 07/16/2012 11:40:25 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The company that persuaded hundreds of thousands of parents to buy Your Baby Can Read products is going out of business, citing the high cost of fighting complaints alleging its ads were false.
Your Baby Can LLC announced the decision on its website.
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I think dogs can “read”. I watched Dogs Decoded and there was a dog who could look at a picture of a toy and then go into another room and bring that toy back. That is just a step away from reading. If the toy had a word on it, like “ball” and then they would gradually fade out the outline and color, I believe the dog would be able to look at the word “ball” and go choose the ball from among the other toys. My son was reading the newspaper when he was a year old and I had never really “taught” him to read. He picked it up from road signs, store signs, his alphabet blocks, etc. I don’t know that there was any huge advantage in it though.
Ping!
Woohoo! Go, Texans!
Well, I guess my cat was an outlier, too; I used the same techniques to teach her hundreds of concepts. She got to choose her own supper and treat flavor preferences, could count to four, and would answer commands to go back into the house or jump into her basket to be brushed, etc. Mammals learn through love and encouragement.
I believe in the potentials of all children and know that many more can be taught much better than they are currently being taught. If you haven't seen the wonderful movie Stand and Deliver about the real life of the hispanic ghetto educator Jaime Escalante, do yourself a favor and rent it.
Also, the books of Jane Goodall and Temple Grandin are very insightful. Both learned to communicate and understand other mammal species, which has led to greater insight of some of the underlying ways humans communicate.
“Do they have a program to teach my dog to read?”
Leashed on Phonics is a good program. What kind of dog is it? You will have to check on the dialect.
Great job, Mom!! I totally agree!
See post 24 -- "Your Ghetto High School Kid Can Do Analytical Calculus."
With a good lawyer....yeah........
I may have to rethink the new business venture I was about to launch: “Your Baby Can Drive.”
The government/education mafia claims another victim.
All babies are born with the innate ability to do analytical calculus. It’s just that they forget how by the time they learn to write standard notation.
Obama promises that if he is re-elected, it will be “Your Baby Can Fly.”
Our #2 son learned to read about that age, and in the same way. When he moved from his crib to a bed, I'd lay down with him and read until he fell asleep. I'd point to the words as I read them, and before I knew it, he was reading all on his own.
On a family trip, a few months before he turned 4, we were traveling with hubby's sister and b-i-l, and trading drivers as we rode through the night. At one point, b-i-l was driving our car while hubby was driving the little bus his sister's family was using. I slept in the back seat of our car, and #2 son was in his booster seat in the front seat with my b-i-l. A few hours later, when we stopped for breakfast, b-i-l asked, "Did you know David could read?" I said sure, and asked how he knew. He said that David read all the highway signs for him as he drove down I-81! ;o)
Isn't private enterprise wonderful? if there is a problem, the public solved it.
Why can't this be applied to government?
That is a totally serious question!
Sure.
Any mammal except politicians...
"Aye, tis' troof."
- A. Wheaten Terrier
That's fraud, dude!
You can't sell training to people to be what they already are.
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