my mother spent over 20 years classroom teaching, is an Ed.D...
LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 21/04/2012 10:40:56 PM
and does not have a tendency to exaggerate our accomplishments. I trust her knowledge to recognize reading vs. parroting, and well...my mother has always been very honest about our abilities. Supportive and positive, always, but never dishonest. And I don't believe she would have a selective memory either. It's just not something she's prone to.
I do agree that it was likely recognition, predominantely, but my mom skipped around a lot within the book to see if I knew the words, and I also was able to tell her what they mean (like, she'd point to moon and ask me what this word was, and I would point to the picture of the moon and say the word). Obviously we're not talking about a 5th grade reading level at 18 months... But it's likely I could at least read a basic book I was familiar with at a rather young age.
Understand that your skeptical too. If my mother wasn't who she was, I wouldn't believe her at her word either! If anyone is off, it could be me. It may have been something more like two years old or two and half. I know it was before I went to preschool, which was at about three? (I was a mid-summer birthday, so all my schooling was a little "early". I'll try to get the exact age.
I do agree that it was likely recognition, predominantely, but my mom skipped around a lot within the book to see if I knew the words, and I also was able to tell her what they mean (like, she'd point to moon and ask me what this word was, and I would point to the picture of the moon and say the word). Obviously we're not talking about a 5th grade reading level at 18 months... But it's likely I could at least read a basic book I was familiar with at a rather young age.
Understand that your skeptical too. If my mother wasn't who she was, I wouldn't believe her at her word either! If anyone is off, it could be me. It may have been something more like two years old or two and half. I know it was before I went to preschool, which was at about three? (I was a mid-summer birthday, so all my schooling was a little "early". I'll try to get the exact age.
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Books for very small children: suggestions?
20/04/2012 12:19:39 AM
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Really, before 18 months you're wasting your time
20/04/2012 01:26:05 AM
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I dunno. I really enjoyed books when I was that young
20/04/2012 03:12:29 AM
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At a year and a half?
20/04/2012 06:18:01 PM
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I don't remember reading quite that young, but I do remember not long after that.
20/04/2012 09:35:11 PM
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Color me slightly skeptical.
21/04/2012 01:17:51 PM
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my mother spent over 20 years classroom teaching, is an Ed.D...
21/04/2012 10:40:56 PM
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I double checked. I was confusing it with another event. I was about 2.5 *NM*
22/04/2012 12:19:09 AM
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Similar experience here...
20/04/2012 07:04:51 PM
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Yah, I was a bit like your niece
20/04/2012 09:30:02 PM
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Re: Yah, I was a bit like your niece
20/04/2012 11:48:12 PM
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Doesn't need to be an extended period of time, though. A few minutes is enough at the beginning.
23/04/2012 12:42:23 PM
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No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
23/04/2012 02:29:57 PM
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Re: No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
23/04/2012 03:32:22 PM
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Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
23/04/2012 04:39:47 PM
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I'm really interested in the evidence for the crawling thing.
25/04/2012 08:11:31 PM
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I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
25/04/2012 09:56:14 PM
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Re: I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
26/04/2012 03:45:40 AM
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anyone who thinks an infant sleeping on its stomach is dangerous is behind the times.
26/04/2012 01:51:59 PM
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If there was a big ad campaign in the UK about this then no-one told my medical team.
26/04/2012 07:40:48 PM
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Hmmm. *shrug* I don't know. I trust this professor to have his facts straight.
26/04/2012 08:01:53 PM
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Possible answer is difference between Scottish and English health systems.
26/04/2012 08:28:38 PM
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weird. maybe trends have swung back the other way.
26/04/2012 10:01:01 PM
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I hope you don't have it mixed up...
26/04/2012 10:18:00 PM
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blagh. maybe I do...I hope not. I hate it when that happens. let me pull out that notebook...
27/04/2012 12:01:47 AM
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Re: Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
26/04/2012 01:39:25 PM
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OH! Another suggestion!
20/04/2012 03:36:45 AM
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I LOVE that book.
23/04/2012 12:44:08 PM
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I...actually had a really long post at one point. I don't know where it went
23/04/2012 02:43:25 PM
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Books by Ruth Brown
20/04/2012 04:26:18 PM
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I loved books like that too. That had little "Easter Eggs" hidden in the pictures ^_^ *NM*
20/04/2012 05:29:50 PM
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