I'm putting this at the bottom of this post because, well, it's basically something similar that happened... once again.
After asking this question about starfall we ended up limiting DD's time on it because she was getting REALLY obsessed with it. As in we couldn't turn the computer on for 2 seconds to check our email without her humming the short a song and pointing at the computer to watch it (and throwing a HUGE tantrum if she didn't get her way). So we've cut back a lot.
However, yesterday, I was really desperate to finish up some work and I was watching DD because our babysitter couldn't come. I just needed about 10 minutes but DD wasn't having it so I turned on some kids show called "words,words" just so I had those few minutes! I KNOW bad mom, right? She's still under 2 but I was hoping one day won't kill her. Anyways, the basic premise of the show was that they wrote the words, would then spell/say the words out loud and it would become an object. So they wrote out slide and before they even said it DD started saying "ide" "ide"! I was pretty shocked! Not only has she never said slide (ok, she couldn't pronounce the whole thing but you know what i mean) before but I guess she has at least one sight word!
Then she did it a couple of minutes later with they wrote duck (she started saying "du" "du"). And even if she couldn't say the word she'd repeat a number of the letters (like she kept saying "r" for about 5 minutes).
Like I've posted before, DD is not a big talker and I think I've heard that there could be problems if your kid starts reading before they start talking? Yesterday was really a one time thing so it's not like I'm going to be letting her watch that show much but is there anything I should be concerned about? I would never limit how much I read to her, so I'm not sure this is something I can really slow down or prevent?
I guess, I'm kind of freaking out here. It's like I keep trying to convince myself that she's not that far ahead or that I just think she does these things because I'm a proud mother. But then she goes and does something like this. It doesn't help that we're considering a move to a country where homeschooling is illegal so that's also a concern of mine. I know it's really early to think about school but it would be a permanent move, so it's something that keeps coming up in my mind.
Ok, thanks for listening if you managed to get through all that.
