Originally Posted by Mana
Originally Posted by Ametrine
Oh, and I once read a review of the Baby Can Read. It involved isolating the child in a restraint of some kind, in a dark room, without anything but the program playing. THAT is hot housing.

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Truly, utterly speechless. What kind of parents/adults would ever subject children let alone babies and young toddlers to this? That is horrible.

For one thing, not parents who are following the Doman TYBTR method, which I think is the original (there are lots of imitators). I got rid of the book, but as far as I remember they recommended seconds or at most a few (under 5) minutes of reading exposure at a time, and only when the baby was happily paying attention. I decided against it because it seemed pointless, not because it seemed wrong.

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