First off, let me say A Big Thank You to all the members who recommended these books :
I have been fortunate to get hold of :
How to Raise a Brigher Child - The case for early learning - Joan Beck.
Raising Brighter Children: A Program for Busy Parents [
Sidney Ledson
Teach Your Child to Read in 60 Days
Brainy Babies - Dr Robin Fancourt - New Zealand
Talking From Infancy - Dr William Fowler
The central message in all these books is that we now have at our disposal, the resources to help our children to be the best they can be even before they start formal schooling.
If the mother of Jason Kauppinen - could raise a genius without any formal training in Early Childhood education, what more can we do today?
I will be sharing some of the insights and exercises from these great works soon.
“Kids who start ahead stay ahead” was a good book. It’s a library one, so I don’t have it in front of me. Neil Harvey works at the Institutes with Glenn Doman and it was exciting for me to hear his perspective on the man. Doman is a very loving, kind, clever, and witty man and Neil shares a few stories.
The essence of the book is that the wanted to know how the children who had an EL education “turned out” in later years. They selected a random sample spread through the years of families that had attended classes at the Institutes and sent them a survey. Many of the parents responded. Counting siblings, there were about 315 children represented, from 5 up to adulthood. All of them did exceptionally well in school. Many received scholarships. Some became business leaders. Some became professional mothers. All were considered gifted. He shares both statistics for the group as a whole and individual stories. I was surprised at how few of them became homeschoolers- as a homeschool graduate I suppose I get a little narrow-minded that way. Some went to private school, but the majority of them went to regular public school. Some of their parents did after-schooling, but many of them didn’t. They didn’t have to because their children loved learning.
When I checked this book out, I didn’t know what it was. When I saw Glenn Doman’s name on the first few pages I started bouncing off the walls. I have a very yellow personality. lol
I thought the contest PokerDad had to pass his book “Talking From Infancy” along to some lucky reader was won by Ruwan. I’d defintely say that was his idea if you have that book that he passed to someone else. Ruwan, How do you like that book???
Humbler
I didn’t win the book - but managed to get a copy locally
Baz
Certainly, I was going to scan the whole story and post it but a viisitor to our house borrowed the book.
I didn’t have the heart to say NO - so you will have to wait a bit with me
