Glenn Doman/GD Baby Math - Discussion
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Hello, I need advise as how to continue GD with my 16 months. My ds started GD when he was 3 months (yes..I am super kiasu :oops: :idea: ) as we chanced upon it when we were at the baby fair.
DEVELOPMENT OF MY CHILD
We are glad we started him early but to date, we do not know if he has benefited from it. He has yet to speak in 2 words...most intelligent words spoken thus far: \"aeroplane\" and \"umbrella\" and can sit on lap and listen to mummy reading stories. All these traits I do not know can be accounted from GD since we started reading to him at a very young age.
As he grows, I am facing this problem:
1) ds has learn to become selective to the books he wants us to read. I have to admit I shifted the responsibility of night time reading to dh when possible due to the repetition of the same story read to ds. It is so routine. Doesnt GD encompass him to read more different books?
2) On English & Chinese,
we are on the way to finishes phrases but he is also losing his attention span and we are losing our patience. The instructor has warned us not to test him but we really wonder if he knows. We used to put the pictures in a pocket folder and flashes the words but he seems more interested with the folder.
I am now trying to get blank flashcards to see if it works. Anyone has this experience before?
3) On making books,
GD instructors wanted parents to self make story books based on the words he has learnt.
4) On Maths,
He has finished the Maths syllabus (+,-,x,divison, problem solving)
As I am moving to 3) and 4) I am slacking in providing more for him (ie. Maths fact and wirting stories) becos it is so tiring and time-consuming!!
I am a FTWM and my dh travel oversea so often. All along, I have been the one doing the stories and getting the pictures for the related words. Frankly, I am on the verge of giving up due to the commitment. Are there any easier route for me?
Can anyone advise and share their experience.... :?: -
My boy has finished the GD program. Initially I faced the same problem as you.
But later I incorporate more pictures and encylopedia flashcards with words as well. Both English and Chinese. It helps.
All my boys started the GD at 1 mth old. Ist boy started talking in 3-4 words when he was 14mths old. 2nd boy started talking in 3-4 words when he was 7mths old.
I realised that incoporation of more right-left brain activities are needed other than flashcards in order to see if GD works. Till today my boys are still using it at age 5 and 2 yrs old. -
Hi Laughing Cat,
Your boys started speaking really early. 7 months… wow!
What do you mean by more right-brain activities?
GD is left-brain training, right?
Please share what else you did beside GD?
When you say your boys are still using GD, do you mean that you repeated all the flashcards? What about Maths? Did you revise the +,-,x, division and problem solving again and again?
BTW, I called the GD Center and they recommend me to make Maths Story books for my DS…I really am too tired to do those books. Any other good suggestion? -
Brainkid:
Yes, my second boy started talking at 7mth old. We were amazed as well. I remember his first sentence was \"I don't want\". :lol:Hi Laughing Cat,
Your boys started speaking really early. 7 months... wow!
What do you mean by more right-brain activities?
GD is left-brain training, right?
Please share what else you did beside GD?
When you say your boys are still using GD, do you mean that you repeated all the flashcards? What about Maths? Did you revise the +,-,x, division and problem solving again and again?
BTW, I called the GD Center and they recommend me to make Maths Story books for my DS..I really am too tired to do those books. Any other good suggestion?
It was because we are more \"zai\" as we have learnt quite a great deal from the Ist boy. We incorporated loads of left brain activities. (sorry for the typo error earlier). We do loads of photomemory games, loads of flashcards, flashcards with storylines and flashcards with songs, reading story books, memory games, speed reading etc.
As for flashcards, we will repeat those that he really likes alot or he demands for that particular theme. I have more than 2000 flashcards. All the pictures are selected by me. We send it in bulk to printing company for print-out. So the picture qualities are good. So get prepared for more flashcards. :lol:
As for the maths program, we used both Shichida and Glenn Doman method. Each of them managed to repeat at least 2x before he reach 2yrs old. Yes, we have maths dots in flashcards as well, which have storylines. All are about everyday life of my boy's activities.....be it at home or outdoor activities.
Many people thinks that flashcards is the only aspect, but one must emcompasses physical aspect as well. My 2nd boy has more physical activities as compared to my first one. Swing him here and there for spatial awareness. He actually started to cruise at 6mth old and by the time he hit 1 year old, he was already running quite steadily. -
Laughing cat,
So you meant we have to really create flash-CARDS? I used the method the center teach to put the printed 80gsm A4 papers in a folder. As I said earlier on, my boy is more interested in dismantling the folder. :!: I just bought the thicker cards so I am going to flash the CARDS to him. Hopefully he opens up.
And just where did you get your creative juice to create so many stories? Any suggestion on that? My mind just bloat up after work each day to think of the stories to write.
Looks like your ds2 benefitted from all the treasures from ds1. Lucky boy.. :lol: -
Hello Brainkid,
Yes, I create my own flashcards. Tedious but fun.
Storylines loads…can be the following:-
1. a trip to the market/ supermarket
2. a trip to the favourite class
3. Blowing candles. Blowing 1 candle, 2 candles, 3 candles etc
4. action time - capture those photos of kid’s activies such as "crying", "walking", "running", "bathing", "laughing", reading", "sleeping", "combing hair" etc
5. Where is the teddy bear? (pictures of bear inside the pail, outside the pail, on the pail, besides the pail etc)
6. Child’s favourite toys
7. Why I love Mummy?
8. Why I love Daddy?
etc… -
laughingcat:
Do you put them page by page in pocket folders?Hello Brainkid,
Yes, I create my own flashcards. Tedious but fun.
Storylines loads......can be the following:-
1. a trip to the market/ supermarket
2. a trip to the favourite class
3. Blowing candles. Blowing 1 candle, 2 candles, 3 candles etc
4. action time - capture those photos of kid's activies such as \"crying\", \"walking\", \"running\", \"bathing\", \"laughing\", reading\", \"sleeping\", \"combing hair\" etc
5. Where is the teddy bear? (pictures of bear inside the pail, outside the pail, on the pail, besides the pail etc)
6. Child's favourite toys
7. Why I love Mummy?
8. Why I love Daddy?
etc.....
Or did you make flashcards in booklet form?
If in booket, do you staple them together or flash like the cards?! -
I do duplicate - one set for my boys and one set for myself. Those that my boys like, I will do it in booklet for them to flip as and when they want. As for me, I prepared in flashcards.
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wow laughingcat, u really sound like an expert! i juz started my boy on English GD set… can i ask for your expert advise…
i just started 2 days ago, so juz beginning to flash single words… when do i hv to start showing words with pictures behind? i’m following the instructions in the book, it doesn’t say to put pictures yet… -
My friend, the laughing cat:
Flashcards works for my DS! I made him a book using flashcards method. He received it with a big wide grin and wanted me to repeat it.
I guess I will revise the Maths with him soon.
:thankyou:
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