Dr. Robert Titzer's Reading program

For some reason I know I have to be back at work for 9am today, last night I especially set two alarms to wake me up in case I fell back to sleep during babyplus. I set the first alarm at 7am (to put babyplus on) and then get up at 8am (babyplus finished) and then 9am at school. It all made sense to me last night (somehow), this morning everything's according to 'schedule'. Only when I started brushing my teeth I thought 'oh! I need to LEAVE now to make it to work for 9am!!!' - what was I thinking! It all makes 'perfect' sense last night *somehow* - sigh. Instead I arrived at school 14 minutes late....:-/ won't repeat that tomorrow!

Just finished dinner. Lettuce, chicken, soup, red bean drink :) full now...was talking to xiaobao earlier before dinner. We tried to record it but the movement didn't really show on the screen. But I can clearly see my tummy moved. Ah well maybe later when he has bigger movement :)

Last sunday we invested another prenatal - 3 year-old baby education system (Reading program). This learning system was researched by a guy called Dr. Robert Titzer whose daughter Aleka can read at the age of 9 months old! Here's the video to prove it. We were amazed at her ability and we want our xiaobao to be able to read and love reading at a young age, so we bought this system. Even though it cost my monthly salary but I hope it'll be worth it but again like babyplus, only one way to find out. If it doesn't - ah well. But if it does....it'll be useful for xiaobao for the rest of his life. So we figure we'll go for it.

The staff who introduce/explains this product to us suggested that it's best to 'talk' to xiaobao everyday after dinner. When we are most relaxed and so will xiaobao. It'll help build the relationship between xiaobao and mommy/daddy. I think xiaobao now recognizes my voice. We just need more daddy input :) This Thursday we'll get delivered the rest of the learning system and the English story books, so that daddy can read to xiaobao after dinner. The one we managed to carry back last Sunday was stories written in Chinese, so daddy can't participate yet. Guess xiaobao will read it to daddy later himself ;)

We just played the CD of SingWithMe for album one. Well what can we say....the music sounds cool but the lyrics (lol) maybe that's how infants like it :). I noticed a lot of repetition and it comes with videos to watch. Though we haven't figured out how to make it work on our macs, we'll wait for daddy to figure it out :). The CD comes with both English and Mandarin voices. So xiaobao will be at least bilingual if not trilingual ;) Of course like his mommy, few weeks in Hangzhou will mean picking up Hangzhou dialect - fantastic :)

The VCD has images, texts, songs, and hands on activity to go with each song. That's exactly how our brain works, through experience-dependent activities. At least I can testify that in terms of educational theories :)