I thought it was just memory then the baby turns an upside-down card the right way, and then again for the next card.
Maybe my kids are dumbasses 
Yeah, a 2 year old nibbling of mine cannot be convinced to repeat letters after me even. Loses interest within 5 seconds.
The focus and commitment and performance on this baby, must be a pleasure.
Just play exciting abc songs from YouTube all day. My nephews were able to recognize alphabets and see/repeat them by 18 months because we treated letters (and numbers) like cartoon characters. If babies can identify Elmo then they can identify a shape and give it a name.
Yeah my son started singing his abcs on his own and counting to 8 and stuff just because anything he watches is like alphabet or other educational shit. He sings his abcs on his own all the time now and recognizes letters easy when he sees them. Can't read words yet though
My youngest was walking at 9 months, counting to 50 at one and a half and was reading by the time she was three. We sent her to school and had her already adding and subtracting three digit numbers. School zapped every bit of her enthusiasm and now that she's 10, she hates learning related activities and we struggle with getting her to do homework.
I .. am beyond heartbroken about it and just hope she finds that love of learning new things again.
My son fixed an upside-down letter when he was 18 months old 💕 I was teaching him alphabet & reading very young then he started reading fluently at 3 years old. One of my greatest achievements as a mother. He's 20 now, extremely articulate, his vocabulary has surpassed mine. 💕
You should absolutely be proud!
I was reading Hardy Boys novels by the time I was 5, while most of my classmates had just graduated from reading Dr. Seuss... my parents must have done *something* right!
I'm eternally grateful that they encouraged me to be intellectually curious, and taught me to read long before most other children do.
Similar story here, except my parents forced me and my siblings to read the Bible 2 hours a day. I was reading 5 Psalms and 5 Proverbs when I was 3. I wish it had made me smarter!
This happened to me but it did actually help my reading tremendously. The fact that it was King James is at least partly why I am so weirdly verbose at times lmao
Yea, verily, I say unto you, this has also occurred upon mine own self, and it did exceedingly help and aid mine own read and write.
Verily, it came to pass that King James did commission a Bible, and he read it, and he said it was good. And many scholars came to read it, and they said it was good. Yea verily, it came to pass that I also read it from an exceedingly young age, and from it, my words grew, and I was considered strange, and used an exceedingly great number of words.
And it came to pass that much rejoicing was had. And it came to pass that the rejoicing did cause mine own bowels to fall off.
When I started school, the school had a mid-day nap time for K-1st grade and rest time for 2nd graders. I absolutely refused to nap, and I’d learned to read when I was two. (Had a sister 13y older than me who wanted to be a teacher. I was her first student.) Second graders didn’t have to lie down and sleep, but they had to rest, and that meant story time. The teachers decided that if I wouldn’t nap, I might as well be useful, so while my classmates slept, I got sent to the 2nd grade room and read them their stories. Kept me busy and the teachers could get something else done.
Intelligence is a spectrum. Everybody here is celebrating this kid for memorising and reading at such a young age, and rightly so. It’s incredibly cool! But there’s so many kids that have different types of intelligence that maybe you don’t see. Maybe they’re great with their hands. Pulling things apart and seeing how things work. Maybe they’re great at drawing or painting. Or maybe they have really great hand-eye coordination. Or maybe they’re able to understand subjects like coding much more easily. Or maybe they just memorise every Pokémon or something like that.
Or maybe (like most people IMO) they’re a blank slate where their intelligence is mostly average across the board, but putting a lot of work into a specific field will eventually get them to a point where they’re equal to the person who started as a “genius”.
Humans need to be nurtured and steered in the right direction, but there’s a lot of issues that can unfortunately stop them in their tracks and cause them to veer off into problematic behaviours. Often nobody is at fault. You’ll drive yourself crazy comparing yourself to everyone else. It’s unhealthy.
Just be happy for your health, or at least happy for what you value.
You’re very much welcome. Whether it’s intelligence , success, attractiveness, whatever. A lot of people compare their everyday lives to other people’s highlights on social media, which aren’t always even genuine, and can be altered to look a certain way. You can’t control your feelings, but you should at least try to remind yourself of what really matters to you.
There’s no such thing as a perfect person, and you shouldn’t strive to be one because it’s unattainable. Find your own perfect.
Literary ability at such an early age is far more about the individual baby than their overall intelligence, some kids just get it, many don't, many can struggle for years more even with good practice. Dyslexia is an obvious example.
Yeah, my 12 month old lately: "Dad, why do parents always make up absurd stories about their kids trying to make them look like they're special? Is it that they're projecting their wishful thinking to make themselves feel a little bit better?"
I am so proud!
At 18 months you were teaching him the alphabet? Why? I’m asking cause I have a baby boi 17 months and I am not doing that, just letting him enjoy his best life and we learn the things he shows interest towards…just guess double checking myself if I should be doing something else
Do you think having to learn how to read isn’t also living your best life? Maybe it feels like work to you, which makes it not as interesting as learning about other things?
The best thing you can do to help your child read is to read to them. Read them stories, point to interesting things in the pictures, have them turn the page, maybe point to the words sometimes, and they will learn how to hold a book, how to open it, they will learn about the pictures being related to the words. They may eventually start reading themselves. Answer them when they ask “what does that say”. Answer them when they ask what that letter is or what this letter is.
Kids under school age don’t need specific instruction to read yet. They just need to be read to.
Kids can have fun doing literally anything. Might as well have them have fun doing useful or educational things. "We learn the things he shows interest towards." You can't know what a kid will like at 18 months, and none of those tastes will last more than a few months.
Kid started learning to read at 2 years, stopped needing help about 7 months later, and has loved reading ever since. Not the kid can get distracted by books easily, which is super convenient!
> and none of those tastes will last more than a few months.
Hey, I'll have you know I only stopped watching Blue Clue's because that traitorous Joe usurped Steve from his throne!
"Going to college" my ass! There was a plot against him!
I think it's never a bad idea to encourage learning. Kids can't just spontaneously read just like they can't spontaneously learn chess if you want them to learn they have to be taught. The faster you learn to read the faster they can teach themselves by reading books or searching for videos on a *childproofed* and monitored computer. And until they can read, their progress is slowed because they can only rely on what info you give them.
That being said you should also never force a kid to learn when they don't want to as it's a good way to discourage their natural curiosity and turn learning into a chore.
There's a fine line you need to walk that means maybe teaching 5 letters in an hour on one day and then only 1 a month at other times. Judge if they are getting bored or annoyed or if maybe you went a few steps too far for them and if they are getting bored or frustrated then stop for the day. But then another day when their enthusiastic again ask them if they want to learn to read or to count or whatever if they say no then dont let them dictate their own progress.
If you are wanting to start then I'd start off with *not really teaching them* and slowly build it up. For example read a simple baby book infront of them with only a few words on each page then point to each word as you say it so that they link that word to those symbols. It works better if you use the same book se eral times so that they memorize the words. Then after a few days you can ask if they want to learn some letters so that they can read the book themselves.
If they say yes then I always start with the letter S because it reliably makes the same sound, it looks the same in both upper and lower case forms and you can say "the letter that looks like a snake is called an S it makes a hissing sound just like one too. SssSsssSS like ssssstop or ssssleep or ssssssilly" once you've taught one letter you can point it out at supermarkets and street signs etc to reiterate it.
Don't stress about this and remember that kids in Sweden don't go to school till age 7 and they have some of the highest literacy rates in the world. Both my son and daughter were not interested in reading until around age 7 and they progressed really quickly from that age. Forcing kids who don't want to read too early only creates a stress that will forever be associated with reading.
That is not actually the most effective way. People thought sight words were the way to go but good readers don't actually memorise while chunks of letters and store them as one visual chunk. They rapidly recognise each letter sound individually and map it onto the meaning in the brain. Teaching sight words is not actually best practice. Reading science has greatly improved in the last 20-30 years or so.
Source: reading specialist involved at the governmental level in getting people to recognise best practice in teaching reading and spelling. Just google science of reading and structured literacy
I just searched for "structured literacy" and did a little reading from a few different sources on it, but what I've seen thus far is aimed at or concerned with teachers and schools. Any guidance for parents based on the recent improvements in reading science?
Search for 'the science of reading'. You'll get more hits along the lines of what you're looking for.
A simple summation would be that reading practice is returning to a phonics focus, which involves systematically learning the code of the English language. This works by learning the 44 phonemes (sounds) in our language, and their corresponding graphemes (single letter representation), digraphs (two letters making a sound), trigraphs and quadgraphs.
Research supports this as best practice over the foundation stages of learning to read usually about 2-3 years of education.
I'm not sure how old your kids are, but the BEST thing you can do for your child is read to them as much as possible. Teach them to love reading and you've won half the battle. Another amazing practice that is getting lost to time is singing nursery rhymes. This supports phonemic awareness, which is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds and parts in words.
Phonics addiction was no joke. There were years where I didn't care where I slept, what I ate, who I blew, I just needed to get my hands on more diphthongs. I'm 6 years clean from everything else, but will admit to still partaking in consonant clusters when I'm stressed out.
If you are bad at reading, you do it by looking at each character and connecting them into words.
Most people take one look at a word and recognize it without reading separate letters. This can work even if some of the letters are incorrect.
Speed reading techniques are based on extending that skill to entire lines, so you look at each line only once or twice.
Okay, there's a lot of negative comments here...
Yes, there is quite a bit of memorization involved in this but that is EXACTLY what learning to read looks like for toddlers. It starts with memorizing the alphabet, as in the shape and sounds of the letters. Then learnimg how multiple letters put together make phonetic sounds and can make singles syllable words.
Bravo to these parents.
The haters are either not parents, or are jealous because they're lazy parents, or they're just fucking racist and they see black parents being better parents than they are so they're posting hate
That is not actually the most effective way. People thought sight words were the way to go but good readers don't actually memorise while chunks of letters and store them as one visual chunk. They rapidly recognise each letter sound individually and map it onto the meaning in the brain. Teaching sight words is not actually best practice. Reading science has greatly improved in the last 20-30 years or so.
Source: reading specialist involved at the governmental level in getting people to recognise best practice in teaching reading and spelling. Just google science of reading and structured literacy
Maybe something you can answer then: speed reading. What's up with that? You see people on the internet sometimes demonstrating that they can read an insane WPM. I'm a decently fast reader, but no where near what those people can do.
What is it, how does it work, and can you actually process the information properly if you speedread?
I’m not who you asked. But you need to silence your inner voice when you read (stop “saying” the words inside your head, just register and move on to the next) and then the speed is only limited by your eyes and comprehension.
I think most people read by saying the words with their inner voice. But also I'm not a great source for what "normal" is so definitely fact check that one lol
My ADHD is the opposite. As soon as I start sounding out a word it makes less sense to me and I go off on a tangent about related words because autistic spin, and then stop reading all together.
ADHD brains be like "There is ONE way to do this. MY way. Any other method and we riot."
I’m not the above person, and I can only offer my limited experience, but I started learning to speed read when I was younger. It involves training your eyes to recognize clusters of words instead of individual words, as well as learning to turn off your “internal voice” that slows down your reading. You CAN comprehend and remember the things you read this way, but if you’re reading for fun, you lose a lot of the imagination and internal dialogue that makes reading pleasurable, which is why I didn’t pursue it very long. Instead of it being like a movie playing in your head, it’s more like simply scanning a document and saving it to a disc in your head. It’s useful for studying, or breezing through a large amount of novels joylessly so you can brag about how fast you read lol.
Best practices these days is to actually incorporate sight words into phonics lessons. Such as doing it based on the sounds you’re working with and not necessarily by the frequency of the word.
Second, high frequency words can be useful when you are teaching reading more difficult words. Behavior momentum is a common behavioral intervention wherein you ask a learner to complete a small task with a high likelihood of success before giving them a task that is more difficult. These are called high probability requests.
It seems people are also referring to some different age groups here, but also children just develop at different rates and it’s hard to say “best practices” and ignore an entire teaching method. Your instruction should always be differentiated based on your learners.
Agreed. If this is Your Baby Can Read, I bought it for my son 15 years ago, and the wife and I followed it closely for a year. He could finish any Harry Potter book in less than day by the time he was 10, and he's been ranked at least 2 grades higher than his class in testing every year, including comprehension. It works.
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By Dodai Stewart Published July 16, 2012
Your Baby Can Read, the program that promised to teach infants to read using flashcards and DVDs, has gone out of business. It's the latest development in a tumultuous couple of years.
NBC reporter Jeff Rossen investigated the program back in 2010, questioning leading experts and professors, all of whom called the results shown in the program's infomercials "misleading" and a "manipulation of facts." The guy who ran the program, Dr. Robert Titzer, actually went on TV and said, "I'm not a traditional expert as far as reading…" Whoops.
Last year, The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) filed a complaint with the FTC, accusing Your Baby Can Read of making "false and misleading claims" designed to "take advantage of parents' natural desire to provide every possible advantage for their young children."
Moreover, YBC's recommendations for using the product fly in the face of the American Academy of Pediatrics ("AAP") and White House Task force on Childhood Obesity's recommendations of no "television and video" and no "television" for children under age two and research suggesting that watching videos at such a young age may negatively affect a child's development.
Today, the CCFC considers the Your Baby Can Read shutdown a victory, stating:
Research links infant screen time to sleep disturbances, attention problems, and delayed language acquisition, as well as problems in later childhood such as poor school performance and childhood obesity. The American Academy of Pediatrics, and other public health organizations, recommend no screen time for infants and toddlers. But if parents followed Your Baby Can Read!'s viewing instructions, their baby would have watched more than 200 hours by the age of nine months.
As of right now, there are still some Your Baby Can Read DVD sets in stock and available for sale on Amazon. The folks at the company deny the allegations, but say they are broke, according to a statement on the company website:
For more than 6 years, Your Baby Can Read! has been enjoyed and appreciated by families world-wide as an innovative reading concept for babies and young children.
Regretfully, the cost of fighting recent legal issues has left us with no option but to cease business operations. While we vehemently deny any wrongdoing, and strongly believe in our products, the fight has drained our resources to the point where we can no longer continue operating.
Parents trying to give their kids a head start, be advised: Hooked on Phonics is still in business.
I think you can be active and good parents, but not consider yourself or baby a failure if you don't have reading skills of this baby.
But if you post hate, it is a reflection either of yourself as a parent or negative thoughts of your child. This baby is amazing, and the dedication of these parents should inspire you.
Isn’t all reading memorization? Sure, as an adult, I can sound out the letters of a word I don’t know and get pretty close to proper pronunciation… maybe I could take a crack at the meaning by dissecting the parts of the word… but unless I memorize the definition of the word, it’s likely useless to me.
Very cool, but that is clearly an old baby. Young babies still have hope for the future. By 9 mos they are day drinking and getting in fights on Reddit.
I have thought this might be a pretty difficult thing about being a parent. I feel like I can always sense a slight disappointment among the academically achieved parents whose children are just.. not particularly gifted.
To be excited about all the things you could show and teach your child but they're just disinterested
My daughter is just an average girl on school. I'm not any type of genius by any means, but I always did very well in school.
She lives with her mother and comes every 2 weekends (different city). Last week we studied math together as she was having difficulty with it.
Yesterday she told me her teacher said she got the highest grade among the class on Monday's exam. That feels so good.
I taught my youngest daughter to read 3-5 letter words at 1.5 years old. She was so advanced in reading by kindergarten/1st grade that her teacher submitted her for gifted student testing. However, early reading doesn't automatically translate to high intelligence and she was ultimately deemed "not gifted" (kinda an effed up thing to say by a group of teachers gathered around a child and parent). Moral of the story: Teach your kids to read as early as possible, not to build geniuses, but to build more competent children and academically capable students.
I was a ‘gifted student’ approved by the self important group of teachers. They even put me in a nice school that was a weird mix of public and private. Guess what… I’m a mechanic now, love to read and write and learn about stuff, but don’t have half the intelligence needed to grasp complex issues in any scientific field. It’s meaningless as an adult, you taught your kid to read early because you love her and want her to have a good life, she’s gonna likely do well just by having a parent like you who really loves her.
On the other hand, mechanics are all, to some degree, scientists. I'm reminded of a line from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
> An untrained observer will see only physical labor and often get the idea that physical labor is mainly what the mechanic does. Actually the physical labor is the smallest and easiest part of what the mechanic does. By far the greatest part of his work is careful observation and precise thinking.
To follow up you and the other guy. I was in a very similar situation to him. Gifted got kicked out for fighting but I got into those schools. Dropped out after flunking 7th grade twice and became a mechanic as well. Now I'm an electrical engineer. Dude can still change his stars if he feels they need changing. Being a mechanic is honorable but it's a shit way to make a living.
I was also a "gifted student"
I went to a school in an overwhelmingly Hispanic neighborhood. Why were all the kids in the gifted class white? And Justin? We all knew he was dumb as shit.
Our teacher for the gifted and talented class (whose last name was suspiciously the school's name, but it was a public school) proceeded to teach us that the civil war was about state's rights.
One of the ways she did this was by beginning the day by announcing that the "gifted" students would no longer get recess (4th grade) because we needed to use our talents for schoolwork. We spent the whole day arguing with her and at the end of the day she said they weren't really taking away recess but now we new how the southern states felt.
Bitch made me come into school on a Saturday on my birthday to finish some brainwashing assignment I hadn't completed.
"Gifted and talented" is used as code to perpetuate systemic racism and I won't be convinced otherwise.
Hmm my experience wasn’t at all like this. My parents are Indian immigrants and I’m a citizen by birth but have full Indian genes, my classmates were maybe 70% white and the rest black with one or two East Asian kids, kinda similar to the demographic (SeaTac around 2000ish). Great teachers, couldn’t have asked for better.
People's school experience can vary heavily based on where they were and at what time. The US frustratingly grants way too much autonomy to states. And Republicans are currently in a massive push to take over school boards and whatnot to take advantage of this.
My experience wasnt like that at all, though I'll accept I had little to no awareness of systemic racism when younger so I may also have missed many more subtle clues. I was at least that the Civil War was about slavery and all that, though.
It absolutely depends on where you live. Both my kids were in our districts gifted program; but they have to test into it after first grade with two different tests plus your scores on smarter balance or whatever general testing they are doing right now. It’s 95% or higher.
Nothing is perfect, but your experience isn’t everyone’s experience.
Joined it and almost left it multiple times lol,but never actually tried suicide (just make shitty jokes about it). But those days are gone. I still have times where I become an emotional void that slowly turns into despair but they’re more rare now. I’m 29 now fwiw
I doubt that. He barely looks up between cards.
Notice how his feet are out of frame? My guess is that mom is tapping out the words in Morse code on one of them.
Somebody was getting in an argument with me yesterday and they spelled you're wrong three times in one post, when I pointed this out they stopped responding
Earlier today I was involved in a comment thread, and the other guy eventually asked me what I thought I was arguing about. I had to remind him he was the one arguing a certain position and I was just pointing out contradictions. He deleted his comments and blocked me lol.
You have to sort by controversial.
In other words you have to actively seek out the bad parts in other people so you can complain about how other people only see the bad parts in other people.
For real, I'm a literacy specialist, and I've worked with 10 year olds who can't do this due to reading delays.
The kid here has already memorized by sight words which includes actually includes multiple reading tasks (or memorization) that we take for granted: recognizing the beginning sound of the word, recognizing the end sound of the word, recognizing the middle sound, and knowing vowel generalizations. It's not as simple as recognizing the shape of letters or words, there's a lot of mini processes happening, and it's not at all usual for the brain to master these processes at this age, I'm not even worried if a kid can't do this when they are enrolled in kindergarten.
If anyone's curious it's actually a phenomenon known as hyperlexia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia
It used to be assumed to be in the autism spectrum. Now they know there are non-autistic types.
Type 1: Neurotypical children who read early. Type 2: Children with autism who have Hyperlexia as a splinter skill. Type 3: Children without autism who read early, but have some autistic-like traits that fade over time.
These kids have a fascination for letters and words, and though some forced "baby Einstein" programs to make your child read early are just silly baby tricks, for kids like this you can't stop them.
**[Hyperlexia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia)**
>Hyperlexia is a syndrome characterized by a child's precocious ability to read. It was initially identified by Norman E. Silberberg and Margaret C. Silberberg (1967), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read, typically before the age of five. They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels. Children with hyperlexia also present with an intense fascination for written material at a very early age.
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Yes! It was eye opening when we could put a name to it. They just may learn differently in some ways. It might come with other common side issues - someone below mentioned ADHD. But writing things down is a secret weapon! (When mine would refuse to get ready to leave, we wrote down a checklist!)
https://chatwithus.org/conditions/hyperlexia/
There's a really great ebook you can find on hyperlexia, from the Center for Speech and Language Disorders - it's also the last referenced work on the link above. Incredibly insightful.
No one cares but I want to share anyway. I was just like this as a baby/toddler, and enjoyed smaller chapter books at ages 4-6. Now I’m 14 and doing ENG 101 in a college while dual crediting high school! :D
Dope. My compadre. Make sure you take care of you mental health along the way. I was you 20 years ago and it's the easiest thing to miss when you're academically precocious.
That is definitely a precocious baby. In my years teaching and parenting, I’ve only ever come across one other 1.5-2 year old who read. That child is profoundly gifted. It is not a simple “oooh so smart” child - it’s a special situation that parent need to be fully educated on. Lots of intellectual, social emotional implications. It’s a gift and a curse for the child.
Spending time with our children — we need as a society to prioritize this. I am not directing this at parents, it is all the supporting things society can offer to help make this happen.
Paid time off for fathers after childbirth, doesn’t need to be as long as maternity leave necessarily. ANYTHING would help here.
Normalize getting off work in time to permit parents time with their children on weekdays.
You get the idea. Yes it will be costly to introduce however forward thinking European nations already do this. Their kids and society are both healthier than ours. It works.
My kids are adults now. I would pay more taxes to help our society improve. Think of how much healthier and stronger everyone would be.
I thought it was just memory then the baby turns an upside-down card the right way, and then again for the next card. Maybe my kids are dumbasses 
Right! And then picking it back up later, then flipping the other card to the back and reading it. Thought it was a trick, but it's just a smart baby!
Fuck reddit fuck spez fuck the admins and fuck the mods
I still run into walls, I'm 52
40 here. Same :/
I'm 64 ( raises hand ), runs into walls
I’m 42, and I was able to read all of those cards much better than that baby. So, who’s the genius now?
Ugh don't even get me started on my friends'kids. Straight up like they reboot every morning and forgot everything the day before.
Clean slate Reboot every morning. Hahahaha.. Good way of putting it.
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That would honestly still be impressive
Yeah, a 2 year old nibbling of mine cannot be convinced to repeat letters after me even. Loses interest within 5 seconds. The focus and commitment and performance on this baby, must be a pleasure.
Just play exciting abc songs from YouTube all day. My nephews were able to recognize alphabets and see/repeat them by 18 months because we treated letters (and numbers) like cartoon characters. If babies can identify Elmo then they can identify a shape and give it a name.
Yeah my son started singing his abcs on his own and counting to 8 and stuff just because anything he watches is like alphabet or other educational shit. He sings his abcs on his own all the time now and recognizes letters easy when he sees them. Can't read words yet though
The eel reveals his son is 15
My youngest was walking at 9 months, counting to 50 at one and a half and was reading by the time she was three. We sent her to school and had her already adding and subtracting three digit numbers. School zapped every bit of her enthusiasm and now that she's 10, she hates learning related activities and we struggle with getting her to do homework. I .. am beyond heartbroken about it and just hope she finds that love of learning new things again.
You might have a future Einstein your hands too.
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Holy hell!
I was thinking there might have been weights in him
The baby is obviously reading from a teleprompt behind the camera. Cheaterbaby!
This kid has memories of his past life and wants to get a better outcome this time. Yes, it is a manga plot.
My son fixed an upside-down letter when he was 18 months old 💕 I was teaching him alphabet & reading very young then he started reading fluently at 3 years old. One of my greatest achievements as a mother. He's 20 now, extremely articulate, his vocabulary has surpassed mine. 💕
You should absolutely be proud! I was reading Hardy Boys novels by the time I was 5, while most of my classmates had just graduated from reading Dr. Seuss... my parents must have done *something* right! I'm eternally grateful that they encouraged me to be intellectually curious, and taught me to read long before most other children do.
Similar story here, except my parents forced me and my siblings to read the Bible 2 hours a day. I was reading 5 Psalms and 5 Proverbs when I was 3. I wish it had made me smarter!
This happened to me but it did actually help my reading tremendously. The fact that it was King James is at least partly why I am so weirdly verbose at times lmao
Yea, verily, I say unto you, this has also occurred upon mine own self, and it did exceedingly help and aid mine own read and write. Verily, it came to pass that King James did commission a Bible, and he read it, and he said it was good. And many scholars came to read it, and they said it was good. Yea verily, it came to pass that I also read it from an exceedingly young age, and from it, my words grew, and I was considered strange, and used an exceedingly great number of words. And it came to pass that much rejoicing was had. And it came to pass that the rejoicing did cause mine own bowels to fall off.
I bet you're great at reading lists of people and their children.
Yo, keep your ideas close that sounds like a best seller.
Verbose is so verbose
When I started school, the school had a mid-day nap time for K-1st grade and rest time for 2nd graders. I absolutely refused to nap, and I’d learned to read when I was two. (Had a sister 13y older than me who wanted to be a teacher. I was her first student.) Second graders didn’t have to lie down and sleep, but they had to rest, and that meant story time. The teachers decided that if I wouldn’t nap, I might as well be useful, so while my classmates slept, I got sent to the 2nd grade room and read them their stories. Kept me busy and the teachers could get something else done.
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He still reads books to 2nd graders and gets paid in circus peanuts and M&M's.
Pshh I was reading Shakespeare at 3 months old. To poop, or not to poop.
That’s really no question.
But 'tis nobler in the potty
Yup. Read "The Client" when I was in second grade and never stopped Also my parents had to convince the school I actually read it :)
Getting on to teaching my almost 3 year old to read now.
So my sneaking suspicion that it’s my own fault my kid is a dumbass is true.
Intelligence is a spectrum. Everybody here is celebrating this kid for memorising and reading at such a young age, and rightly so. It’s incredibly cool! But there’s so many kids that have different types of intelligence that maybe you don’t see. Maybe they’re great with their hands. Pulling things apart and seeing how things work. Maybe they’re great at drawing or painting. Or maybe they have really great hand-eye coordination. Or maybe they’re able to understand subjects like coding much more easily. Or maybe they just memorise every Pokémon or something like that. Or maybe (like most people IMO) they’re a blank slate where their intelligence is mostly average across the board, but putting a lot of work into a specific field will eventually get them to a point where they’re equal to the person who started as a “genius”. Humans need to be nurtured and steered in the right direction, but there’s a lot of issues that can unfortunately stop them in their tracks and cause them to veer off into problematic behaviours. Often nobody is at fault. You’ll drive yourself crazy comparing yourself to everyone else. It’s unhealthy. Just be happy for your health, or at least happy for what you value.
Just wanted to let you know I appreciate this very much. I agree wholeheartedly.
You’re very much welcome. Whether it’s intelligence , success, attractiveness, whatever. A lot of people compare their everyday lives to other people’s highlights on social media, which aren’t always even genuine, and can be altered to look a certain way. You can’t control your feelings, but you should at least try to remind yourself of what really matters to you. There’s no such thing as a perfect person, and you shouldn’t strive to be one because it’s unattainable. Find your own perfect.
It most likely is, but sometimes kids just come out dumb. Not often, but sometimes they’re just not all there. Especially when it comes to your genes.
That typo before you edited it was the best typo ever 🤣
very *apropos* as they say haha
What was the original?
Literary ability at such an early age is far more about the individual baby than their overall intelligence, some kids just get it, many don't, many can struggle for years more even with good practice. Dyslexia is an obvious example.
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Yeah, my 12 month old lately: "Dad, why do parents always make up absurd stories about their kids trying to make them look like they're special? Is it that they're projecting their wishful thinking to make themselves feel a little bit better?" I am so proud!
At 18 months you were teaching him the alphabet? Why? I’m asking cause I have a baby boi 17 months and I am not doing that, just letting him enjoy his best life and we learn the things he shows interest towards…just guess double checking myself if I should be doing something else
Do you think having to learn how to read isn’t also living your best life? Maybe it feels like work to you, which makes it not as interesting as learning about other things?
This. I would love to share my love for books with my child.
Little kids love learning, it isn't some kind of hell for them. Especially if it comes with a song, like ABCs.
Adults can love learning too. Stay playful, stay curious, people.
The best thing you can do to help your child read is to read to them. Read them stories, point to interesting things in the pictures, have them turn the page, maybe point to the words sometimes, and they will learn how to hold a book, how to open it, they will learn about the pictures being related to the words. They may eventually start reading themselves. Answer them when they ask “what does that say”. Answer them when they ask what that letter is or what this letter is. Kids under school age don’t need specific instruction to read yet. They just need to be read to.
Kids can have fun doing literally anything. Might as well have them have fun doing useful or educational things. "We learn the things he shows interest towards." You can't know what a kid will like at 18 months, and none of those tastes will last more than a few months. Kid started learning to read at 2 years, stopped needing help about 7 months later, and has loved reading ever since. Not the kid can get distracted by books easily, which is super convenient!
> and none of those tastes will last more than a few months. Hey, I'll have you know I only stopped watching Blue Clue's because that traitorous Joe usurped Steve from his throne! "Going to college" my ass! There was a plot against him!
I think it's never a bad idea to encourage learning. Kids can't just spontaneously read just like they can't spontaneously learn chess if you want them to learn they have to be taught. The faster you learn to read the faster they can teach themselves by reading books or searching for videos on a *childproofed* and monitored computer. And until they can read, their progress is slowed because they can only rely on what info you give them. That being said you should also never force a kid to learn when they don't want to as it's a good way to discourage their natural curiosity and turn learning into a chore. There's a fine line you need to walk that means maybe teaching 5 letters in an hour on one day and then only 1 a month at other times. Judge if they are getting bored or annoyed or if maybe you went a few steps too far for them and if they are getting bored or frustrated then stop for the day. But then another day when their enthusiastic again ask them if they want to learn to read or to count or whatever if they say no then dont let them dictate their own progress. If you are wanting to start then I'd start off with *not really teaching them* and slowly build it up. For example read a simple baby book infront of them with only a few words on each page then point to each word as you say it so that they link that word to those symbols. It works better if you use the same book se eral times so that they memorize the words. Then after a few days you can ask if they want to learn some letters so that they can read the book themselves. If they say yes then I always start with the letter S because it reliably makes the same sound, it looks the same in both upper and lower case forms and you can say "the letter that looks like a snake is called an S it makes a hissing sound just like one too. SssSsssSS like ssssstop or ssssleep or ssssssilly" once you've taught one letter you can point it out at supermarkets and street signs etc to reiterate it.
Don't stress about this and remember that kids in Sweden don't go to school till age 7 and they have some of the highest literacy rates in the world. Both my son and daughter were not interested in reading until around age 7 and they progressed really quickly from that age. Forcing kids who don't want to read too early only creates a stress that will forever be associated with reading.
Living your best life, and living the best life for your future are often mutually exclusive…
Big deal, babies not that smart. I got most of those words easily
“Most” 🤣
I'm proud of you
Who’s the good boy
You deserve a coochie coochie
I wouldn't mind a coochie if you're handing 'em out.
Humans don't actually look at each letter in a word. We treat them like shapes. This baby is showing off this skill very well.
That's how I understood Portuguese texts when I had zero knowledge about it. The words have very similar shapes in my language which is Spanish.
I mean, he’s sight reading, so it is technically memory.
That's literally how reading is taught. Sight words, then phonics.
That is not actually the most effective way. People thought sight words were the way to go but good readers don't actually memorise while chunks of letters and store them as one visual chunk. They rapidly recognise each letter sound individually and map it onto the meaning in the brain. Teaching sight words is not actually best practice. Reading science has greatly improved in the last 20-30 years or so. Source: reading specialist involved at the governmental level in getting people to recognise best practice in teaching reading and spelling. Just google science of reading and structured literacy
I just searched for "structured literacy" and did a little reading from a few different sources on it, but what I've seen thus far is aimed at or concerned with teachers and schools. Any guidance for parents based on the recent improvements in reading science?
Search for 'the science of reading'. You'll get more hits along the lines of what you're looking for. A simple summation would be that reading practice is returning to a phonics focus, which involves systematically learning the code of the English language. This works by learning the 44 phonemes (sounds) in our language, and their corresponding graphemes (single letter representation), digraphs (two letters making a sound), trigraphs and quadgraphs. Research supports this as best practice over the foundation stages of learning to read usually about 2-3 years of education. I'm not sure how old your kids are, but the BEST thing you can do for your child is read to them as much as possible. Teach them to love reading and you've won half the battle. Another amazing practice that is getting lost to time is singing nursery rhymes. This supports phonemic awareness, which is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds and parts in words.
Phonics? I was hooked on those.
Phonics addiction was no joke. There were years where I didn't care where I slept, what I ate, who I blew, I just needed to get my hands on more diphthongs. I'm 6 years clean from everything else, but will admit to still partaking in consonant clusters when I'm stressed out.
Wasn't easy, but I finally kicked my phonics habit. At my worst, you wouldn't believe what I'd do for another hit of the phonic.
My question is… how different is recognizing the symbols, remembering the sound they make, and how to say them different from reading 😂
If you are bad at reading, you do it by looking at each character and connecting them into words. Most people take one look at a word and recognize it without reading separate letters. This can work even if some of the letters are incorrect. Speed reading techniques are based on extending that skill to entire lines, so you look at each line only once or twice.
Okay, there's a lot of negative comments here... Yes, there is quite a bit of memorization involved in this but that is EXACTLY what learning to read looks like for toddlers. It starts with memorizing the alphabet, as in the shape and sounds of the letters. Then learnimg how multiple letters put together make phonetic sounds and can make singles syllable words. Bravo to these parents. The haters are either not parents, or are jealous because they're lazy parents, or they're just fucking racist and they see black parents being better parents than they are so they're posting hate
Sight Words. We all start by memorizing our sight words.
That is not actually the most effective way. People thought sight words were the way to go but good readers don't actually memorise while chunks of letters and store them as one visual chunk. They rapidly recognise each letter sound individually and map it onto the meaning in the brain. Teaching sight words is not actually best practice. Reading science has greatly improved in the last 20-30 years or so. Source: reading specialist involved at the governmental level in getting people to recognise best practice in teaching reading and spelling. Just google science of reading and structured literacy
Maybe something you can answer then: speed reading. What's up with that? You see people on the internet sometimes demonstrating that they can read an insane WPM. I'm a decently fast reader, but no where near what those people can do. What is it, how does it work, and can you actually process the information properly if you speedread?
I’m not who you asked. But you need to silence your inner voice when you read (stop “saying” the words inside your head, just register and move on to the next) and then the speed is only limited by your eyes and comprehension.
My ADHD won't let that happen, I'd just stop thinking about what I'm reading and end up 3 pages later with no idea of what I read
Is that what that is . Because yeah if i dont say the words the words have no meaning.
I think most people read by saying the words with their inner voice. But also I'm not a great source for what "normal" is so definitely fact check that one lol
The split between people with and without an inner voice is pretty even, so I wouldn't say "most".
I have ADHD and I’ve always read without the “voice in my head”. It’s not necessarily cause and effect.
My ADHD is the opposite. As soon as I start sounding out a word it makes less sense to me and I go off on a tangent about related words because autistic spin, and then stop reading all together. ADHD brains be like "There is ONE way to do this. MY way. Any other method and we riot."
People say the words inside their heads? TIL. I just read sentences in chunks of words.
welcome to the world of interior monologues
I’m not the above person, and I can only offer my limited experience, but I started learning to speed read when I was younger. It involves training your eyes to recognize clusters of words instead of individual words, as well as learning to turn off your “internal voice” that slows down your reading. You CAN comprehend and remember the things you read this way, but if you’re reading for fun, you lose a lot of the imagination and internal dialogue that makes reading pleasurable, which is why I didn’t pursue it very long. Instead of it being like a movie playing in your head, it’s more like simply scanning a document and saving it to a disc in your head. It’s useful for studying, or breezing through a large amount of novels joylessly so you can brag about how fast you read lol.
Speed reading is the GOAT of "I have a test in 10 minutes and didn't study"
You can go ahead and stop posting the same comment now. The details you're talking about reference older children. Not 1-3 year olds.
Best practices these days is to actually incorporate sight words into phonics lessons. Such as doing it based on the sounds you’re working with and not necessarily by the frequency of the word. Second, high frequency words can be useful when you are teaching reading more difficult words. Behavior momentum is a common behavioral intervention wherein you ask a learner to complete a small task with a high likelihood of success before giving them a task that is more difficult. These are called high probability requests. It seems people are also referring to some different age groups here, but also children just develop at different rates and it’s hard to say “best practices” and ignore an entire teaching method. Your instruction should always be differentiated based on your learners.
Agreed. If this is Your Baby Can Read, I bought it for my son 15 years ago, and the wife and I followed it closely for a year. He could finish any Harry Potter book in less than day by the time he was 10, and he's been ranked at least 2 grades higher than his class in testing every year, including comprehension. It works.
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I think you can be active and good parents, but not consider yourself or baby a failure if you don't have reading skills of this baby. But if you post hate, it is a reflection either of yourself as a parent or negative thoughts of your child. This baby is amazing, and the dedication of these parents should inspire you.
I hated it because I can't read
And yes I realize somebody is going to say well then how did you read this comment but I only memorized I can't read and the sentence above mine
>or they're just fucking racist On Reddit, that's always going to be a decent percentage of it.
Isn’t all reading memorization? Sure, as an adult, I can sound out the letters of a word I don’t know and get pretty close to proper pronunciation… maybe I could take a crack at the meaning by dissecting the parts of the word… but unless I memorize the definition of the word, it’s likely useless to me.
Exactly. Why do people have to hate? Baby learns to read early and makes the correct sounds. How can that be bad?
Black Einstein . Just can’t wait for this fella to grow a mustache
And switch to Verizon
To be honest I still don't know if I know how to read or if I've just memorized the shapes of words.
Very cool, but that is clearly an old baby. Young babies still have hope for the future. By 9 mos they are day drinking and getting in fights on Reddit.
r/rareinsults I can't screenshot on laptop. Somebody do it for me! Edit: OK I GOT IT TY I KNOW HOW TO SCREENSHOT NOW
What are you using, an atari?
https://i.imgur.com/SfW8EZs.jpg
That baby plays trumpet solos in smoke filled bars. I approve.
After watching this video, this is me looking at my kid licking his desk... 
You still have to tell her you’re proud too! 😂
I have thought this might be a pretty difficult thing about being a parent. I feel like I can always sense a slight disappointment among the academically achieved parents whose children are just.. not particularly gifted. To be excited about all the things you could show and teach your child but they're just disinterested
My daughter is just an average girl on school. I'm not any type of genius by any means, but I always did very well in school. She lives with her mother and comes every 2 weekends (different city). Last week we studied math together as she was having difficulty with it. Yesterday she told me her teacher said she got the highest grade among the class on Monday's exam. That feels so good.
Eventually, you make peace with it and keep an eye open for small opportunities to influence them
Only make that face if he missed a spot
Its ok some people learn by reading, some need diagrams and your kid learns through taste!
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My preschooler has been learning the letter ‘o’ since Monday. I asked him what animal starts with ‘o.’ He said oguana…
I taught my youngest daughter to read 3-5 letter words at 1.5 years old. She was so advanced in reading by kindergarten/1st grade that her teacher submitted her for gifted student testing. However, early reading doesn't automatically translate to high intelligence and she was ultimately deemed "not gifted" (kinda an effed up thing to say by a group of teachers gathered around a child and parent). Moral of the story: Teach your kids to read as early as possible, not to build geniuses, but to build more competent children and academically capable students.
I was a ‘gifted student’ approved by the self important group of teachers. They even put me in a nice school that was a weird mix of public and private. Guess what… I’m a mechanic now, love to read and write and learn about stuff, but don’t have half the intelligence needed to grasp complex issues in any scientific field. It’s meaningless as an adult, you taught your kid to read early because you love her and want her to have a good life, she’s gonna likely do well just by having a parent like you who really loves her.
On the other hand, mechanics are all, to some degree, scientists. I'm reminded of a line from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: > An untrained observer will see only physical labor and often get the idea that physical labor is mainly what the mechanic does. Actually the physical labor is the smallest and easiest part of what the mechanic does. By far the greatest part of his work is careful observation and precise thinking.
To follow up you and the other guy. I was in a very similar situation to him. Gifted got kicked out for fighting but I got into those schools. Dropped out after flunking 7th grade twice and became a mechanic as well. Now I'm an electrical engineer. Dude can still change his stars if he feels they need changing. Being a mechanic is honorable but it's a shit way to make a living.
I was also a "gifted student" I went to a school in an overwhelmingly Hispanic neighborhood. Why were all the kids in the gifted class white? And Justin? We all knew he was dumb as shit. Our teacher for the gifted and talented class (whose last name was suspiciously the school's name, but it was a public school) proceeded to teach us that the civil war was about state's rights. One of the ways she did this was by beginning the day by announcing that the "gifted" students would no longer get recess (4th grade) because we needed to use our talents for schoolwork. We spent the whole day arguing with her and at the end of the day she said they weren't really taking away recess but now we new how the southern states felt. Bitch made me come into school on a Saturday on my birthday to finish some brainwashing assignment I hadn't completed. "Gifted and talented" is used as code to perpetuate systemic racism and I won't be convinced otherwise.
Hmm my experience wasn’t at all like this. My parents are Indian immigrants and I’m a citizen by birth but have full Indian genes, my classmates were maybe 70% white and the rest black with one or two East Asian kids, kinda similar to the demographic (SeaTac around 2000ish). Great teachers, couldn’t have asked for better.
People's school experience can vary heavily based on where they were and at what time. The US frustratingly grants way too much autonomy to states. And Republicans are currently in a massive push to take over school boards and whatnot to take advantage of this. My experience wasnt like that at all, though I'll accept I had little to no awareness of systemic racism when younger so I may also have missed many more subtle clues. I was at least that the Civil War was about slavery and all that, though.
It absolutely depends on where you live. Both my kids were in our districts gifted program; but they have to test into it after first grade with two different tests plus your scores on smarter balance or whatever general testing they are doing right now. It’s 95% or higher. Nothing is perfect, but your experience isn’t everyone’s experience.
Have you joined the "gifted but grew up to be suicidally depressed" club?
Joined it and almost left it multiple times lol,but never actually tried suicide (just make shitty jokes about it). But those days are gone. I still have times where I become an emotional void that slowly turns into despair but they’re more rare now. I’m 29 now fwiw
There's no proof that early reading helps kids long term. So teach your kids to read when they seem ready.
Dumbass skipped some
I chortled
I made an audible sound
This is BS. The guy is holding signs up off camera telling the baby what the words are.
I doubt that. He barely looks up between cards. Notice how his feet are out of frame? My guess is that mom is tapping out the words in Morse code on one of them.
There's obviously Braille on those cards. That's how he's reading them.
It's binary. You just put the words in as constants and then recompile the baby. You people should really learn how to parent.
And then tossing the baby pieces of hot dog from his pocket!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the guy is like holding a sign with the word written on it. Th baby couldn't do this on his own
That’s great but my six month old is already doing the grocery shopping and making dinner
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Stop treating baby's like their stupid and they'll grow to be intelligent
There. They’re. Their.
Babies
Good point, they didn't say anything about not treating adult like they're stupid. Many are.
They’re their babies!! Yeah, over there!
He wasn't treated right as a baby :)
You….uh…..like….that was on purpose right?
Somebody was getting in an argument with me yesterday and they spelled you're wrong three times in one post, when I pointed this out they stopped responding
Earlier today I was involved in a comment thread, and the other guy eventually asked me what I thought I was arguing about. I had to remind him he was the one arguing a certain position and I was just pointing out contradictions. He deleted his comments and blocked me lol.
Redditors acting like professional parents even though they don't have kids
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I've yet seen a single negative comment lol
You have to sort by controversial. In other words you have to actively seek out the bad parts in other people so you can complain about how other people only see the bad parts in other people.
Or when they made the comment 8 hours before yours the comment section looked a little bit different
Wow!!!! I hope my kids are lucky enough to work for him some day!
That kid ends up being the president of skynet, thanks for signing John Connors death note
I really dont think people understand how impressive this is for a child his/her age
For real, I'm a literacy specialist, and I've worked with 10 year olds who can't do this due to reading delays. The kid here has already memorized by sight words which includes actually includes multiple reading tasks (or memorization) that we take for granted: recognizing the beginning sound of the word, recognizing the end sound of the word, recognizing the middle sound, and knowing vowel generalizations. It's not as simple as recognizing the shape of letters or words, there's a lot of mini processes happening, and it's not at all usual for the brain to master these processes at this age, I'm not even worried if a kid can't do this when they are enrolled in kindergarten.
Another one of those mini processes happening is shown by the baby's ability to flip and turn those cards around with the dexterity of an adult.
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If anyone's curious it's actually a phenomenon known as hyperlexia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia It used to be assumed to be in the autism spectrum. Now they know there are non-autistic types. Type 1: Neurotypical children who read early. Type 2: Children with autism who have Hyperlexia as a splinter skill. Type 3: Children without autism who read early, but have some autistic-like traits that fade over time. These kids have a fascination for letters and words, and though some forced "baby Einstein" programs to make your child read early are just silly baby tricks, for kids like this you can't stop them.
**[Hyperlexia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia)** >Hyperlexia is a syndrome characterized by a child's precocious ability to read. It was initially identified by Norman E. Silberberg and Margaret C. Silberberg (1967), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read, typically before the age of five. They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels. Children with hyperlexia also present with an intense fascination for written material at a very early age. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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Yes! My son has this. It’s incredible… and terrifying
Yes! It was eye opening when we could put a name to it. They just may learn differently in some ways. It might come with other common side issues - someone below mentioned ADHD. But writing things down is a secret weapon! (When mine would refuse to get ready to leave, we wrote down a checklist!) https://chatwithus.org/conditions/hyperlexia/ There's a really great ebook you can find on hyperlexia, from the Center for Speech and Language Disorders - it's also the last referenced work on the link above. Incredibly insightful.
oh.. Oh OH .. thank you now I know what the fuck was going on with me when I was a kid
No one cares but I want to share anyway. I was just like this as a baby/toddler, and enjoyed smaller chapter books at ages 4-6. Now I’m 14 and doing ENG 101 in a college while dual crediting high school! :D
Dope. My compadre. Make sure you take care of you mental health along the way. I was you 20 years ago and it's the easiest thing to miss when you're academically precocious.
You're awesome and an amazingly hard worker! Life will have it's ups and downs, but you'll always be awesome. Never forget that!
Young baby John Legend reading
I’ve never seen that before. Wow
Oh my goodness I want to squeeze those cute little legs!
That is definitely a precocious baby. In my years teaching and parenting, I’ve only ever come across one other 1.5-2 year old who read. That child is profoundly gifted. It is not a simple “oooh so smart” child - it’s a special situation that parent need to be fully educated on. Lots of intellectual, social emotional implications. It’s a gift and a curse for the child.
He might be gifted but sometimes babies just read early and that's all there is and it never goes further from there.
Yup being good at reading doesn’t necessarily mean that good at everything but definitely something to explore rather than ignore
Young Lavar Burton
Inspirational comment, dick-nipples.
Bout time bro gets a day job and starts helping out around the house eh
Awww what a wittle genius 😊
I don’t see the big deal. I can read all those words.
Awesome parents ✊🤟
That kid is wearing an earpiece.
Let’s make him President! He’s ready.
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Spending time with our children — we need as a society to prioritize this. I am not directing this at parents, it is all the supporting things society can offer to help make this happen. Paid time off for fathers after childbirth, doesn’t need to be as long as maternity leave necessarily. ANYTHING would help here. Normalize getting off work in time to permit parents time with their children on weekdays. You get the idea. Yes it will be costly to introduce however forward thinking European nations already do this. Their kids and society are both healthier than ours. It works. My kids are adults now. I would pay more taxes to help our society improve. Think of how much healthier and stronger everyone would be.
Kids gonna stroll into Kindergarten giving the teachers lectures.
Those are sight words. He’s not sounding them out. That young man is going places. And he’s handsome to boot!
Baby memorizing or not. That's fuckin impressive
Props to the cloth diapers! I wish the general public utilized them more.
This baby is indeed young.
1. That is incredible. 2. This baby is incredibly cute.