A Review of Your Baby Can Read!

Review Of Your Baby Can Read DVD Early Language Development System

By Dee Matthews

As an experienced parent of 3 children, ages 20, 16 and 2, I am naturally cynical about any product that makes a claim as extravagant as teaching your baby to read. I taught preschool for more than 15 years and believed that children learn to read by being read to, and by learning phonics when they enter public school at age 5 or 6.

I stumbled across such a product recently called “Your Baby Can read”. It is the first reading video series specifically designed to help teach infants and toddlers how to read.

I brought this set of videos home to my 2 year old and the 4 children who attend my family home child care. The children were immediately enthralled by the first starter video. All 5 toddlers, ages 10 months to 2 1/2 years old, watched as short video clips, music, and 22 different words danced across the screen.

I was impressed with the DVD’s ability to hold such young children’s attention for more than 2 minutes. The video clips of babies and children demonstrating each word are very short. Each word appears on the screen multiple times and in different fonts. As a word is read out loud, an arrow scrolls along under the word from left to right. There also familiar songs from childhood.

The great revelation came on a 3 hour road trip with my daughters ages 16 and 2 in the back seats of the minivan. In an attempt to distract her little sister who was strapped in her car seat, my eldest picked up the MagnaDoodle and started writing each of our names. I was astounded to hear my baby read mommy, daddy, and Zoe. Wow! We started writing words we had seen on the videos. Zoe read monkey, elephant, cat, dog, and mouth!

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