From PSLE to University

[clarabella]

2ppaamm:

Can lah, academic part can be replaced by the IB or HSD or NUSH AP (which is also HSD).

My bad, I meant to say A levels or equivalents, to fulfill the academic requirements lor.

[bbtaymummy]

2ppaamm:

Ha ha, I also don't like to read story books. I have hardly finished a novel in my entire life! However, I like to read journals, factual and more serious stuff... Strange hor?


This is how I read to my kids, see if it helps you. At 1, just take a book, not more than a sentence each page. Read through it very happily and quickly and interestingly with the child on your lap. Don't test his understanding or anything. Key is to make it very interesting. Before he can process the page, go on to the next. He must not be bored. I can go through 20+ books on one seating with my kids when they were at about 1 to 1.5 years old. They keep asking for more. Don't worry about them learning to read. Just keep doing this day in day out. One day, they will read and love books. Surprisingly, all my 4 kids read books (like Chronicles of Narnia) at 4 years old.

Don't be uptight about them learning. They will.

Now that they are in their teens, all of them read much more than me. My 2nd daughter and 4th boy read about 2-3 novels a DAY. Sometimes, I have to force them to stop reading because I'm worried about their eyesight.

O, I don't believe in all those reading classes, enrichment courses, expensive programs by profiteering groups. My method seems to work pretty well, all my kids love books, and my P3 boy has already finished reading all his P4 textbooks (they even like textbooks ). He also finished reading the 5 sets of encyclopedia in the house when he was 5. In addition, he also reads all the comic books I can buy off the shelf (Tintin, Archie, Batman, Spider - you name it, I have it)

I buy toys 6 times a year for the kids. But I buy or borrow books from the library liberally. Being surrounded by thousands of books in the house, they will naturally read. My 13 year old also reads all the business books and all the self-help adult books as well. She also read the university text I teach from, which most undergrads find so boring. I just wonder why these are interesting to her? We call #2 and #4 the reading machine of the house. Because of that, their knowledge is scary... they seem to know everything, from who invented what, to the history of everything we see in any country. My oldest also knows the origin of each dinosaur bone and the birthdays of every famous pop star.... (whatever for?):?

Funny? But these info can be useful when asking for autographs when you meet these stars on the road in HK. :lol:

Hope this helps!

:thankyou: :thankyou: really appreciate this and will start reading to my boy today!

[2ppaamm]

bbtaymummy:

:thankyou: :thankyou: really appreciate this and will start reading to my boy today!

Very welcomed! Glad there are young parents around!

[phankao]

2ppaamm:

This is how I read to my kids, see if it helps you. At 1, just take a book, not more than a sentence each page. Read through it very happily and quickly and interestingly with the child on your lap. Don't test his understanding or anything. Key is to make it very interesting. Before he can process the page, go on to the next. He must not be bored. I can go through 20+ books on one seating with my kids when they were at about 1 to 1.5 years old. They keep asking for more. Don't worry about them learning to read. Just keep doing this day in day out. One day, they will read and love books. Surprisingly, all my 4 kids read books (like Chronicles of Narnia) at 4 years old.

hehe - read thru v quickly eh? Sounds like \"right-brain\" training. It works really. I read to my baby from birth and I discovered he could read both eng & chinese by the time he was 9mths old.

[2ppaamm]

phankao:

hehe - read thru v quickly eh? Sounds like \"right-brain\" training. It works really. I read to my baby from birth and I discovered he could read both eng & chinese by the time he was 9mths old.

Eh..what is right brain training? I developed this method after reading some books... didn't know there is some cheem theory behind it. Your kids read at 9 months! :faint: Can't be just training, must be some smart genes at work as well!

[phankao]

2ppaamm:

Eh..what is right brain training? I developed this method after reading some books... didn't know there is some cheem theory behind it. Your kids read at 9 months! :faint: Can't be just training, must be some smart genes at work as well!

Well, the read v fast and flip to next page, is similar to \"right-brain\" training. It develops the child's photographic memory?

I also use that way, but with baby, only need to do a little each day (2mins to 5mins max each day). I didn't do with the other kids.

[2ppaamm]

phankao:

Well, the read v fast and flip to next page, is similar to \"right-brain\" training. It develops the child's photographic memory?


I also use that way, but with baby, only need to do a little each day (2mins to 5mins max each day). I didn't do with the other kids.

oic.... now i know where the photographic memory comes from. For one moment, I thought it was my genes....

[Blobbi]

phankao:

Well, the read v fast and flip to next page, is similar to \"right-brain\" training. It develops the child's photographic memory?


I also use that way, but with baby, only need to do a little each day (2mins to 5mins max each day). I didn't do with the other kids.

Oi, 9 mths, cannot be right brain training lah. Must be genes! This is my theory cos that, what's his name, Sakamoto or some Japanese flip method? That one. Start at birth right? But how come no one else can read at 9 mths?

(Sorry, I never believed in right or left brain training cos I only got one brain :)).

[phankao]

Blobbi:

phankao:

Well, the read v fast and flip to next page, is similar to \"right-brain\" training. It develops the child's photographic memory?


I also use that way, but with baby, only need to do a little each day (2mins to 5mins max each day). I didn't do with the other kids.

Oi, 9 mths, cannot be right brain training lah. Must be genes! This is my theory cos that, what's his name, Sakamoto or some Japanese flip method? That one. Start at birth right? But how come no one else can read at 9 mths?

(Sorry, I never believed in right or left brain training cos I only got one brain :)).

Plenty lah - go see youtube, have babies that can recognise words & by 1+ year old or 2yo when they are verbal, you can see them reading out loud. I loosely follow Dolman, but didn't buy their kit. just read their book. Quite simple method.

We didn't use this with our older kids. So busy when you have several kids 2 or 3 years apart. In fact, my elder boys couldn't read when they started p1 altho' my eldest girl read at 4years old.

So no geniuses in our family (or ancestors). Cannot be genes only.

[2ppaamm]

phankao:

Blobbi:

[quote=\"phankao\"]Well, the read v fast and flip to next page, is similar to \"right-brain\" training. It develops the child's photographic memory?


I also use that way, but with baby, only need to do a little each day (2mins to 5mins max each day). I didn't do with the other kids.

Oi, 9 mths, cannot be right brain training lah. Must be genes! This is my theory cos that, what's his name, Sakamoto or some Japanese flip method? That one. Start at birth right? But how come no one else can read at 9 mths?

(Sorry, I never believed in right or left brain training cos I only got one brain :)).

Plenty lah - go see youtube, have babies that can recognise words & by 1+ year old or 2yo when they are verbal, you can see them reading out loud. I loosely follow Dolman, but didn't buy their kit. just read their book. Quite simple method.

We didn't use this with our older kids. So busy when you have several kids 2 or 3 years apart. In fact, my elder boys couldn't read when they started p1 altho' my eldest girl read at 4years old.

So no geniuses in our family (or ancestors). Cannot be genes only.[/quote]What is Dolman har?