All About Right Brain Training

[venuschan]

Hi,


I have not attended any right brain schools, I only read most of Shichida’s books before birth, now my DD is 5+ and I am still homeschooling her ( Malaysia), what I did to her was materials that I DIY, my advice to NEW parents is to start " young", if you are a SAHM, then things come easy, imagine DD is 5, but she is reciting 36x36 timetables, able to grip abstract Maths concept such as negatives, able to do decimal, fraction, and conversion…, I guess this is the result of Shichida’s method which I started since she was a month old, the training is effective, who wld believe a 5 yo child would read out " stratospheric nacreous", "Mesospheric noctilucent " etc when I flashed to her all 32 cards on clouds formation with striking similarities…or to recite 1000 LM within 3 weeks with few rounds of audio listening… am thinking to join right brain class only now to see what are the new methods being introduced…

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Hi venuschan, what did you do with your dd everyday? can share?

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Hi venuschan, what did you do with your dd everyday? can share?

[venuschan]

Hi swpf,


I read to her constantly from birth to 3.5yo until she was able to read her own, of course now I still read to her books that need detailed explanation. Everyday I try to play TT CDs, do mental Maths, flash cards, let her read her own favorite story books…, as she is learning music, so that has become one of the main activity nowadays.

Besides, it all depends how old your child is, if the child is less than 3, I think flash cards and constant reading are sufficient, if the child is more than 3, than other activities would set in such as reciting, writing…etc, a combination of left brain and right brain activity. But I wasn’t quite concern of handwritten stuff such as spelling, writing, for I noticed if the child is well prepared with all the skill training such as photographic memory, speed read, then all other left brain activity such as spelling, dictation, would turn real easy, imagine DD can recite adult poems of 150 with few readings.

If your child is still very young, then my advice is to read as many/different books as possible, never intentionally try to teach child to recognize just words for sake of wishing the child to read as young as 1/2 yo, because we as adult can read fast, slow, variety, different kind of books, from books that are fun to boring, more important we don’t dumb down…, so the child would try to absorb what were read to them.

[notabox]

seekingangels:

Hi All,


I am new to the website. See some posting on Schichida and My Little Genius. I am checking out both programmes and some others. Will welcome any more feedback on these programmes. Thanks!

Hi seekingangels,

Have you decided on a program for your child yet? I am also looking for one now for my ds3.

Back when I was looking for a right-brain program for ds1, there were only Glenn Doman (must self-teach) and The Shichida Method to choose from. Now, there are so many right-brain centres, I am at a lost. I was quite fixed on Happy Train @ Bugis (thought this is the only other right-brain centre other than The Shichida Method) until I read about My Little Genius.

Are there others? Hope you can share your views/findings of the various centres.

TIA!

[smilingbees]

Hi,


I’m new here too!
Anyone heard of smile enrichment? I was approached by them while shopping at marine parade. Heard that they’re doing right brain and giving free trial now… Considering to go… Anybody attended before?

[EASON MAGPIES]

I came to this forum and did some research when my DD was about 6 months old. I also went to little genius for preview and shichida too. I also feel shichida staff are very arrogant. They don’t seem interested in having you at all. Perhaps they know they have long Q waiting. Little genius was very friendly but I was not impressed with the curriculum. In the end I put my child at Little Neuro Tree at Jurong East. Now they have changed their name. They do linking memory, flash cards and singing songs. My DD enjoyed it and we have just started the 3rd term. So we still unsure of the results.


With so much good claims about shichida, I am now thinking if I should put my DD there again. I mean if they are good and improve my DD, I should not allow their bad attitude to stop me.

We only show her you tube flash card at home. Seldom do actual flashing with her. I try to read to her every night but she always come snatch the book when I am half way through as she likes to play with books herself. Now I read to her when she drinking her night snack. Only time she can stay still.

She is now about 19 months old.

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hi EASON MAGPIES, how is the lesson at LNT?

[notabox]

EASON MAGPIES:

I came to this forum and did some research when my DD was about 6 months old. I also went to little genius for preview and shichida too. I also feel shichida staff are very arrogant. They don't seem interested in having you at all. Perhaps they know they have long Q waiting. Little genius was very friendly but I was not impressed with the curriculum. In the end I put my child at Little Neuro Tree at Jurong East. Now they have changed their name. They do linking memory, flash cards and singing songs. My DD enjoyed it and we have just started the 3rd term. So we still unsure of the results.


With so much good claims about shichida, I am now thinking if I should put my DD there again. I mean if they are good and improve my DD, I should not allow their bad attitude to stop me.

We only show her you tube flash card at home. Seldom do actual flashing with her. I try to read to her every night but she always come snatch the book when I am half way through as she likes to play with books herself. Now I read to her when she drinking her night snack. Only time she can stay still.

She is now about 19 months old.

Hi EASON MAGPIES,

Thank you for your sharing.

What name did the LNT at JE changed to? I understand Happy Train was previously LNT as well.

Many parents are boycotting Shichida because of their bad customer service but really, how often do we have to face the front desk? To me, what is most important is the teacher and effectiveness of the program.

My ds1 was with SM for 5 terms and we did not have any issue except of course, the high turnover rate of their sinsei. I heard this is still the case.

SM would still be my choice for ds3 if they have a branch nearer to my place.

[micollh]

agree with notabox… DD has been with shichida for 3 years… same sinsei (never change) we only switch class to different timing after DS came along… and no problem with the admi staff all very friendly… EXECPT some sinsei are super stuck up face… meet in toilet also never greet or smile…


it’s the method tt’s important, if u find the sinsei not good, change, there are many teachers there. i heard more positive feedback for sinsei in SP though. just to share.