17-Month-Old Girl Reads Words, Simple Sentences

[earthmother97]

why push your child wrote:

these parents need to let the little girl be a child, wow she memorized words, my 2 year has the most amazing memory. wow she can remember things you read over and over and over and over again to her. Poor kid is going to grow up having to live up to these idiots expectations

Seems to me that you are the idiot. You certainly show yourself to be uneducated on the facts of the case.
The mother and father are both speech pathologists. Do you really not think that the mere fact of them being what they are couldn't possibly have had some affect on their child?
Besides, they didn't push her...she read the word corn in a supermarket when she was 13 months old, and they started noticing her doing things like that more and more. Nobody taught her to read, per se, she watches a sign-language show, and basically that taught her what she needed to know.

Educate self before opening mouth.

[Krys]

This is so great. Kids should learn early, this can only set them up for great things when they get older. Great job, parents.

[Krys]

Joy wrote:

If all parents focused a bit more on literacy, I wouldn't be teaching those same basic words to my 8th grade students.

Amen to that

[Boywonder]

I am currently graduating college (3 weeks to go!! woot) and have been excepted to go to Phoenix AZ, for a master's in International Logisitcs and Supply Chain Management. I speak English (and have a TESL degree), Chinese(Mandarin), fluently and am currently attempting to add Spanish to the mix. I digress, the point here is that I have made some headway in education and am planning on going to the top (wherever that may be). But I do have a confession, I didn't learn to read till I was seven years old and when i begged my mother to teach me. The reason for this is that I was homeschooled and absolutely refused to read for anyone. So, my mother took all of my books and packed them up and said some to the effect of, "ok. no more reading for you." I was fine with that until I was seven and really really wanted to be able to read, so here I am. LOL!! Thanks mom for going at my pace!! I also am saying that I have congrats for the parents and their child!

[Joy]

Boywonder wrote:

I am currently graduating college (3 weeks to go!! woot) and have been excepted to go to Phoenix AZ, for a master's in International Logisitcs and Supply Chain Management. I speak English (and have a TESL degree), Chinese(Mandarin), fluently and am currently attempting to add Spanish to the mix. I digress, the point here is that I have made some headway in education and am planning on going to the top (wherever that may be). But I do have a confession, I didn't learn to read till I was seven years old and when i begged my mother to teach me. The reason for this is that I was homeschooled and absolutely refused to read for anyone. So, my mother took all of my books and packed them up and said some to the effect of, "ok. no more reading for you." I was fine with that until I was seven and really really wanted to be able to read, so here I am. LOL!! Thanks mom for going at my pace!! I also am saying that I have congrats for the parents and their child!

I, too, have a Master's in TESL, but I know how to spell ACCEPTED (not excepted).

[Boywonder]

Joy wrote:

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I, too, have a Master's in TESL, but I know how to spell ACCEPTED (not excepted).

Ok, apparently you have missed my point. And by the way, thanks for catching the inappropriate word use there, tssk tssk tssk, I should have known better than to write on blogs in class, never could pay full attention to two things at once. However, I was able to "spell" "excepted" correctly, therefore not constituting a miss spelled word but instead an inappropriate word usage. You should have known that already, Master's, hmmm.