Baby learned to read at nine months!

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#21 October 28, 2007, 11:12:55 pm

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#22 October 28, 2007, 11:41:10 pm

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Quote from: Shepperd on October 28, 2007, 10:34:23 pm

uh.. my sister could read by that age.

This is WAY OLD SHIT

EDIT: my mum applied the same procedure on me but a little later because she found about it after having me for a while.

The cons is that you become a very intellectual kid from early age, develop a huge amount of imagination, first grades are a breeze but you fail at social interaction because YOU ARE TOO FUCKING AHEAD OF YOUR STANDARIZED TIME

This. My parents did this with me, I could read full books at age 2, and I went through the first few grades of school easily, but social interaction was awkward because I felt like I was on a different mental level than kids my age. Also ended up becoming a lot lazier later on in school.

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#23 October 29, 2007, 12:04:09 am

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(Dubious source, ho!?!?)

Intriguing, but this seems an entirely logical means of introducing your child to language and perhaps one not entirely novel if not for lack of adoption in formalized education. It makes less sense to attempt to teach a child to read by simply showing them words themselves, devoid of context and meaning, as they might appear in a text book. Still, it is interesting to see how early a child may be able to internalize such things.

Also, it's nice to see how many baby geniuses we have floating about the internet. I had no idea it was so common to be reading (and comprehending... that's pretty important too.) before the age of three. I wonder if there are any of us who can recall reading through War and Peace while safely tucked away in our mother's wombs. (I, for one, found it shallow and pedantic)

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#24 October 29, 2007, 12:08:09 am

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This isn't something new. I was reading at a young age like that, and so was a friend of mine. We totally ruled Kindergarden with our impressive reading abilities.

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#25 October 29, 2007, 12:36:28 am

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I learned to talk and walk before age 1, I think I was 10 months. Most of the people in my family were like that too. My little sister skipped crawling and was way on her way of walking at like the end of 8 months.

All of us were reading by age 2 or less too. Reading at 9 months is kinda ridiculous but at 18 months it's not impossible.

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#26 October 29, 2007, 01:00:20 am

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i didn't learn to read until summer between kindergarten and first grade

does this mean im dumb

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#27 October 29, 2007, 01:18:49 am

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well talking and walking is generally relative to how much interaction the infant gets and how much motivation he/she gets to walk as well.

I come from a pretty large family so there was always the interaction. Plus, I guess seeing so many people walking around the house... We all were like "I want to do this shit too".

I had a lot of people helping learn to read too.

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#28 October 29, 2007, 02:11:52 am

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my brother started reading when he was 18 months as well... :O
he was a pretty amazing baby, so i hear. he could say all his colors (including ones like aqua, fuschia, mauve, etc...) by the time he was 12 months old. he could do all the basic math operations by 3 years old (me too

). he showed that he could read simple words when he was 2. he was in the mall with my grandma and he was in a stroller, and he pointed at a sign nearby and he read out loud "watch your step", just as it was on the sign.
so it only makes sense that he's a math professor at michigan state now.

get 'em started early!

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#29 October 29, 2007, 03:26:10 am

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Actually learning to read before the age of 6 or 7 doesn't provide a statistically significant edge to students later on in life (as opposed to kids who learned to read around 6 or 7).

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#30 October 29, 2007, 03:36:57 am

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Man, I can't get Autumn to sit down long enough to even THINK of looking at a book let alone actually read one. I've tried to do exercises and stuff like that to teach her letter and numbers and, at this point, she'll only count to three and that's only if she feels like it.

Just because a child can't read at the age of two (I didn't start reading until I got in to school) doesn't mean they are, in any way, smarter or dumber than other children. Kids are all different and, as such, learn differently.

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#31 October 29, 2007, 03:57:05 am

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I started walking at 8 or 9 months, yet I couldn't speak in full sentences until I was 3. I also learned how to read during 1st grade (6 years old), and by the end of the year I was one of the best readers. Also, in first grade I was like 8 chapters ahead of everyone else in the math book; the teacher would teach a section of the book I had done like 2 months before while I worked alone at my desk.
Talking and reading do not correlate (at least in my case) to intelligence (I am one of the smartest kids in my grade [rank ][/rank]).

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#32 October 29, 2007, 04:25:55 am

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Man what

I thought babies didn't even recognize their parents until they're a year old

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#33 October 29, 2007, 04:31:34 am

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Quote from: Ragnar on October 29, 2007, 04:25:55 am

Man what

I thought babies didn't even recognize their parents until they're a year old

then how do you explain "MAMA" and "PAPA"?

the first thing they wind up seeing is generally their parents so yeah

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#34 October 29, 2007, 04:33:26 am

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I remember there is a period of time though

maybe it's only like 3 weeks or something :/

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#35 October 29, 2007, 04:35:57 am

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no child's education is complete without Safari Goku's multivolume treatise on philosophy and it's so many volumes you better Get Them Started Now!!!

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#36 October 29, 2007, 05:00:14 am

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Quote from: Evil Bob on October 28, 2007, 11:41:10 pm

This. My parents did this with me, I could read full books at age 2, and I went through the first few grades of school easily, but social interaction was awkward because I felt like I was on a different mental level than kids my age. Also ended up becoming a lot lazier later on in school.

wow wtf you are me.

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#37 October 29, 2007, 07:18:46 am

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I learned to read sooner than most other kids. English was the first language I started to learn besides my native language, and I started at around the age of four, by playing Leisure Suit Larry. Granted, the things I had to type in were along the lines of "open door", "talk to girl" and "drink whiskey", but at some point I had memorized all of the game's dialogue boxes, so I guess that was a big help, since I made my parents constantly explain to me what they all meant. I can't remember a single time I seriously tried to study English in school, anyway.

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#38 October 29, 2007, 07:59:48 am

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I remeber teaching my little brother to read 2 years before he actually should learn it. But I don't think it's needed to teach a child to read at that age. I mean, what is the goal for that?

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#39 November 02, 2007, 12:52:48 am

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puberty killed me i knew my alphabet by like 19months, how to do some simple addition by 3 and i was the 4th highest marked CCAT (mandatory govt test in Canada) in my Grade 3 year. so i was in special "advanced" courses from gr4 to gr6 then halfway through gr7 i went all lazy and got kicked out, now i can barly do math for my life so im just abandoning it and hoping i can graduate by doing my math @ night school or supplementary exam

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#40 November 02, 2007, 06:18:35 pm

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Quote from: Roman on October 28, 2007, 08:53:47 pm

so... no baby scientists?

man

If babies could read, there would be baby philosophers before baby scientists.

One of them would probably post here showing how he's finally "figured it out" and how he has a plan for the perfect religion.

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