Your Baby Can Read....Research?

[Keith Nelson]

Hi Liz,   I agree with these comments from Jim, 
as well as most you have received.   My own 
daughter too was not an especially quick starter, 
but once she got into sentences she just 
blossomed and blossomed and was so marvelous to 
observe and enjoy.

	Really fluent exposure to 3 languages 
even if they are not equal in hours  per week is 
a great deal your daughter is getting as a great 
bonus for her language flexibility, and probably 
also for her thinking flexibility.  So, yes, 
enjoy, follow her interests and enthusiasms, and 
have fun in ordinary circumstances away from too 
much technology and as often as possible out in 
nature.

	Best regards,  Keith Nelson


At 6:05 PM -0500 3/2/10, James Morgan wrote:
>Hi Liz,
>
>I hope that you will also follow the wise advice 
>to enjoy your baby and not get too anxious about 
>whether she is meeting artificial developmental 
>deadlines. You daughter is 16 months old and 
>using one-word utterances - that is well within 
>the norms. I remember that when my own daughter 
>was 19 months, she had a total vocabulary of 
>four words: mama, dada, wawa ("dog") and yaya 
>("doll"). The average productive vocabulary size 
>at that age is about 80, so we were starting to 
>get a bit worried about her. For no good reason, 
>as it turned out. She soon started talking much 
>more and using sentences, not just one word at a 
>time. After I took her for her check up just 
>before her second birthday, on the way out to 
>the car, she said to me "Dad, you know what I 
>like about going to the doctor's office is 
>getting to play with all the toys in the waiting 
>room." Quite a sentence! She is now a highly 
>verbal young adult.
>
>Children follow different developmental 
>pathways. I suspect that trying to force any 
>child down any pre-planned route is never 
>optimal.
>
>Best,
>   Jim Morgan
>
>At 05:43 PM 3/2/2010, you wrote:
>>I really Appreciate that you all took to time to inform me and give me
>>your opinions on the subject matter. I knew it seemed to good to be
>>true and that is why i preferred to ask Professionals and experts in
>>Language before i continued with it. I love my daughter and I agree
>>that after reading all of your input it would be just a trick that you
>>are teaching the child. I do read to her every day, and in three
>>languages, so im hoping her language comes soon for she only says
>>simple words like Agua, Mama, Dada, Teta Etc.
>>But once again thank you so much for easing my worries by sharing with
>>me all of your wonderful knowledge.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Liz Pattison
>>Undergraduate Research Assistant
>>University of Texas at El Paso
>>
>>On Mar 1, 6:48 pm, Jean Berko Gleason <glea... at bu.edu> wrote:
>>>  Hi Donna  ... thanks..  I couldn't resist.....
>>>
>>>  Jean
>>>
>>>  Donna Jackson wrote:
>>>  > thank-you...this was the best comment ever!
>>>  > Donna Jackson-Maldonado
>>>
>>>  > Jean Berko Gleason escribi�:
>>>  >> Hi  this is a very interesting
>>
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And what is mind
and how is it recognized ?
It is clearly drawn
in Sumi  ink, the
sound of breezes drifting through pine.

--Ikkyu Sojun
Japanese Zen Master    1394-1481

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