I've been hearing so much about the new informercial product "Your Baby Can Read." People are going nuts for it and spending lots of money for it. I am not sure if it works in any special ways. It might be fabulous for babies. 

I know something that I've used that is fabulous for babies. My husband and myself reading, singing, and talking to them. Babies love for us to read to them at a very very young age. I started to reading to each of my babies as soon as I brought them home. They love it! They love songs being song to them and they love it when we talk to them.

These three activities are essential to language development and for helping young children when they are ready to read. My two girls started reading around 4 or 5 years old, which I think is young enough. They are avid readers today because I started them reading since birth.

We started a tradition in my house years ago where we wrote a song for the new baby. I started with my first one. I just made up a simple 4 four line song with her name it. I sang to her often. When the next child came along, I asked her to make up  a simple song for her baby sister.  We all sang that simple song to the new baby everyday. They love to hear their name in a song. 

Now with the new baby boy, I asked the baby girl to make up a song with his name in it. It's a great tradition because each child gets to hear their name in a song and they get to write a song as well.

If you don't have the money to buy an expensive language development tool such as ”,Your Baby Can Read,” don't sweat it. Just read to them, sing to them, and talk to them. Plus limit the amount of Television you expose them to in the first few years of life. They will thrive and rise to the top of their class by using these simple tools.