[reaganaut1]

I have not used "Your Baby Can Read" and doubt that trying to teach infants and toddlers does much good. But I don't think it does any harm, either, and the idea that someone can complain to the government and put an educational company out of business for "inflated claims" scares me. Can I sue the public schools and have them shut down for all the inflated claims they make? Or can I start small and sue the publishers of Everyday Math? In a free country, people who think an educational program doesn't work publicize their complaints, but they don't get the government to take the product off the shelves. Btw, the Amazon reviews of the company's products are mostly favorable. Many of the people who actually bought the product like it.

[null and void]

If it keeps one baby from learning to read, it’s worth it.

[sportutegrl]

"Your Baby Can Read"

For those who find Hooked on Phonics just too hard.

[nickcarraway]

Do they have a program to teach my dog to read?

[humblegunner]

A much simpler business model would be “Yo Chile Ignerint”.
Easily designed curriculum, minimal study time.. send money
and we can assure that at a minimum... Yo Chile Ignerint.

I missed my calling in marketing, tell you what.

[Albion Wilde]

I used similar techniques (in an earlier decade) to teach my child to recognize colors at age 4 months and to read independently by age 3. While the other parent and all four grandparents scoffed, he skipped a grade and remained a top-notch student all the way through the doctorate, in spite of several family tragedies and upheavals that statistically are found more often in kids who fail.

If you can read, you can learn or solve many other fields and problems. If you can’t read, everything is a struggle.

It is probable that the complainants expected to open a package, sneer at the instructions and have magic happen with no effort. Losers. To try to get paid off for it is evil.

[Rennes Templar]

Gov’t agencies love to protect us from such evil entrepreneurs, while potential terrorists walk across our borders daily.

[texas_mrs]

I never used any product like this to teach my kids, but don't doubt that it does them some good. I think teaching your child to read is the number 1 thing a parent can do to ensure their child's success. When my youngest was born, I read to her every night before she was even sitting alone. She paid attention to the pictures and then later, apparently, the words, because before she even started school she began to read billboards, trucks and packages to me. And I don't mean she recognized the brand names, etc., she was reading words she could not possible guess at. Later in school, she was reading at a 12th grade level in the 6th grade & is a spelling and grammer nazi. She began college last year with the idea of a degree in English, but changed to geology by the end of the year.

Today, she is playing with the Tarleton band for Governor Perry at a political event. She's not too impressed, though, as she considers him a rino, as do I.

[JaguarXKE]

I’m waiting for “Your Baby Can Do Analytical Calculus.”

[MrB]

“Your Baby Can LLC”

hmmm... your baby can form business entities?

[OB1kNOb]

I certainly attribute the YBCR program in large part to our 4 year old granddaughter’s ability to read so well.

[ScottinVA]

I’ve never used it for my kids or granddaughter. I’m a believer that children should learn to read the old-fashioned, phonetic way.

[frogjerk]

Ping!

[GreenHornet]

I may have to rethink the new business venture I was about to launch: “Your Baby Can Drive.”

[BigBobber]

The government/education mafia claims another victim.

[publius911]

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.

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!

[esquirette]

The first time your baby asks you to explain any provocative billboard in a major metropolitan area, you will reconsider the entire enterprise.