When to start teaching my child to read
When Can I Start Teaching My Baby To Read
hi i'm krista from intellectual baby and
today's question comes from Sara in
Arkansas and Sara asks when can I start
teaching my baby to read well Sara this
is a very popular question so we decided
to answer it on today's edition of video
tips the first point I would like to
make is that as soon as your baby was
born
you not only instantly became a parents
but you also became your baby's first
and most important teacher
recent studies are showing how important
this period of development from birth to
six years old is scientists have labeled
this a window of opportunity for
learning language or a critical period
meaning that this is the easiest time to
introduce language to your child that
being said I would just like to
encourage all of you parents watching to
embrace this role because teaching your
baby is such a joyous wonderful
adventure you have an amazing student as
you well know your child is looking to
you as their first teacher to teach them
everything they want to know up until
they enter school and studies are also
showing that children that are engaged
in early learning activities are being
labeled as gifted once they enter school
this isn't because they are born smarter
than every other baby it's just because
they had an adult a parent or a
caregiver who took an interest and
invested some time and some early
learning activities with them babies are
able to learn so many things before the
age of six the other thing I would like
to mention is that if there's only one
early learning activity you can
participate in start reading to your
child every day reading to your child is
so important you can't begin early
enough if you haven't started at birth I
would like to encourage you to go ahead
and start today develop a routine where
you spend a little bit of time every day
reading to your child this is an
activity you can continue doing
throughout your child's life your child
will never get too old to share a story
with their parents there are some very
good advantages to reading to your child
every day two of those being that
children that are read to at an early
age do generally turn out to be early
readers and second of all they develop a
love of reading which stays with them
throughout their lives but let's get
back to your question when can I start
teaching my baby to read well I was very
very eager and excited to get started
teaching my babies how to read and I
generally began around three months at
an election baby we have developed a
baby reading program that is
specifically designed to teach children
to read during this period of
development and we recommend it to
children between the ages of three
months and four years old these are just
general guidelines and you can use your
judgment to decide if you think that
your baby is ready basically you don't
want to start sooner than three months
because you want to make sure that your
child has the ability to be able to
visually track an object this means that
if you hold an object between eight to
ten inches away from your baby's face
and you move it to the right and to the
left that your baby can follow the
object with their eyes if your baby is
capable of doing that
this means that they will be able to
recognize and see the words clearly as
they're presented on the flashcards on
the videos and in the books but what if
your baby is past three months what if
your baby's one two three or four and
you're just now considering
teaching your baby to read oftentimes
parents will ask am I too late did I
miss the boat can I still teach my baby
to read answer is yes yes and yes you
can still teach your baby to read
scientists have been doing a lot of
research on the developing brain and the
fact that they have been discovering are
just astounding they are realizing that
so much brain development is taking
place during the period of birth to six
years old and that children can learn
language effortless effortlessly this is
the window of opportunity for your child
to learn language this is very evident
if you've ever watched a child that is
bilingual or multilingual
interacting with several people you will
see that they can switch languages
without any effort it requires no effort
for them to speak to one person in one
language into someone else in another
language and to be able to listen to two
conversations going on in different
languages and still be able to
understand what's being said this is the
magic of this time so I cannot encourage
you strongly enough to just take part in
some early learning activities with your
child I would like to leave you with
some benefits to beginning an early
reading program now there are so many
which we may just touch on in another
video but for today I'd like to leave
you with three first of all babies that
are taught to read learn more easily and
it is more enjoyable for them they're
able to easily understand subjects and
things that are being taught to them and
this is a wonderful thing the second
benefit is that it leads teaching your
baby to read leads to an advanced
vocabulary which can increase your
baby's IQ making your baby smarter and
the last but not the least as there is a
very special and strong bond developed
between the parent or the caregiver and
the child that is being taught there is
so much respect for these little
children we often think that they're
incapable of doing so many things yet
parents that engage in early learning
programs are just astounded and amazed
at the abilities their babies have to
pick up information and learn it so
quickly so easily and so joyously well
that's it for today's edition of video
tips if you have any questions or
comments you can leave those below or if
you would like more information about
the monkey see baby reading program head
on over to our website thanks for
watching
happy learning
