Babies can read before you realised

My girl could read almost the whole book from A-Z back in the beginning of this year, and now she can recognize many things and words on many of the charts in our room too.....

Yes, almost everyday, i read those words to Autumn and she follows.

 

Sometimes the babies' pronunciation might be weird but it's okay. As long as they enjoy the whole process, and think that mommy is playing with them, they are learning. 

Before you even realised, she would read the whole chart!!

I was too shocked and could not take the video in time when she started reading...

Haha... Hope you will enjoy the video...

Baby in the Supermarket

Oh... haven't been updating this blog again....
and there are so many unfinished posts...
  

Taken in a Supermarket in Brunei... Education is not just limited to indoor of theory, whenever i go, i explain everything to my baby. Especially when you bring your baby to the supermarket, even not in Kuching...

Well, this is the easiest for her as she could recognize and say "Banana" since long time a go. She is happy to recognize something familiar here in this supermarket.

 I normally don't go to the supermarkets for groceries coz Autumn's daddy will just bring home everything we need. We still go to supermarkets for other items like frozen food, bakery stuffs, fruits, meat and veges...

 One Two Three! She counts when i started holding the camera or my blackberry..

 These are watermelons...

 

Nice pose...

 

Wholemeal Bread is her favourite, so she is enjoying it after we paid...

My baby wants to "play"

Last week when i picked Autumn from school, she would hold my hand and led me towards the side.
"Mommy, play.. play..."

At first i was kinda blurred and wondered where was she dragging me...
Oh, she wanted to play with me...
Yea, my girl is starting to enjoy playing certain things..

See... She went on climbing up....

The teacher was worried..

Hehe... I see you....

Trying to climb through the hole..

Trying to climb through the glidder

 "I want to do jumping exercise!!"

Turtle..

After one round of playing all those....  then only she was satisfied to go home...

I normally let her try to explore things, playing is a fun and easy way to learn!! (provided if i am not in a rush!)
You can say all the verbs or nouns and explain to her while she is doing certain actions or touching certain things... She can pick up really fast when she is in a happy mood....

Children learn what they live

I love little children. I always do. I used to teach little kids, drawing, Maths, English, Art, etc...
I enjoyed it a lot!
I even wanted to have my own childcare center. Errmm... I am still interested actually.
I had some consideration before having my own baby.
It is a great responsibility. I knew long long time ago. Having a baby is not just-give birth, send to nursery or leave them with your parents, etc.
I dislike irresponsible parents like that.
Imagine your parents had spent years bringing up the children, and now they need to take care of their children's children again??! I mean grandchildren.
Why not be more considerate or responsible?
That is why i took a long consideration.
I must make sure that i educate my children well.
To be great but humble, to be loving, caring, confident, independent, friendly, helpful, kind, appreciative, etc.....
I wanted to make them as perfect as i could think of!!! I am very sure every parents out there think the same as well....
From the day we decided to have our own baby, i had plans in my mind for my baby.
How to educate her is my main concern.
I bought many books about pregnancy education, toddlers' learning, and many of Glenn Dorman's books on how to teach your baby to read and how to boost your baby's intelligent, etc.
When Autumn was 1 month old, there was 1 week that she cried a lot and wanted to be carried. i did not carry her. Instead, i kept telling her that she must learn to be obedient. She must play by herself when mommy is busy. At first she cried, but after a while she is used to it.

Whenever Autumn falls down, i never rush to carry her. I would tell her to stand up. Whenever i said:"Up!" She would just stand up by herself and never cried when she fell down. Not that i don't love her. I love her more than anything else. That is why I want her to be tough & independent.

Since Autumn was 8 months old, whenever she wanted to climb up the stairs, i never stop her.
Instead, i let her climb and just guarding her from behind. I never stopped her from learning. I let her try and learn.


I am very proud of my gal. Yes, it is very true that children learn what they live.

Toys for babies??? Books & Flash cards too!!

Well, i was tidying up Autumn's whole Play-pan full of her toys, books, etc.
Many people actually asked me why do i buy books for her so early?
Well, maybe i have read too much about "Glenn Doman's theories- Babies can read, How to teach you baby math, etc "
Indeed, she can spell the beginning few alphabets, and spell 1 to 10. She can recognize and read out many of the animals in the books too!

Here are some of her toys that i think is more educating. I don't let her play those non-beneficial toys, unless once in a while when i am busy.

Autumn's Moo-Moo xylophone since 3 months old, she hardly play with it now..


This one reads out all the alphabets and numbers whenever you press the button.


This little giraffe has music when she puts the boxes though the mouth of the girraffe.


This box of shapes is good in training the child's observation, fingers and eyes.

Music, music & music...


You can either stake it up, or just put the smaller ones into the bigger ones.


Now, this is what she does every day when she gets back to our room.
Take out all the flash cards and scatters all over.


She will also take out her books and flip through the pages.


Autumn's writing board...

Now and then, whenever i see any good books that suit her, i will just buy for her...

Autumn enjoys going to school

Hehe... it's been 2 months plus since i transferred Autumn to this new place>> Tadika Jubli ( or known as Pleasant Camp-Kindermusic).

This is her first day, she appreciated the teacher's feeding and kept "Uhmm! Yum~ Yum~"

In the beginning, she would cry terribly every morning i sent her to school, which made me felt very reluctant to leave her. However, the situation did not last very long. Now, every morning after i dropped her, she would wave and said "Bye! Bye!" unless she is still sleeping when the teacher carries her.

This is play time, all the children below 3 years old are playing outside and Autumn loves it too!

Cutie group photos of all the little ones, they could not really sit still and they were excited and kept waving at me.
Autumn is starting to recognize her friends' by calling their names one after another, like "Cat-Cat, I-saac, Ann-Bell, Aldrich, etc"

I am also very glad and proud of what she has learned in school. Not only that she is learning music, alphabets, numbers, etc. She has learned a lot on her inter-personal skills, like how to greet people, make new friends, say "Hi!", etc.
She is very friendly and whenever i introduced my friends to her, she would say "Hi!", or call them as "Uncle" or "Antie", etc. She could never missed out her popular act, "High Five!"