Best Parents

"Your baby is such a wild child! She never seems to calm down until she's practically exhausted." "He keeps waking up! He should be able to sleep through the night by now." "That kid of yours throws such tantrums! She's so aggressive and rude too. Worst case of the 'Terrible two's' I've ever seen!" "He won't focus on anything, not even his favorite cartoon, for more than a minute or two. How's he going to learn anything in school?" "She ought to be able to dress himself by now. She still can't button Read more [...]

Your Baby Can Read is the best program on the market right now to teach your child how to read. It comes as a learning kit with DVDs and flashcards which reinforce the material in the shows. My father bought the program for my son as a gift and we started using it when he was about nine months old. He would sit and watch the shows, which were about twenty minutes total each in length, and I would watch him from the kitchen while I did dishes. The whole concept behind it is that they show a word on Read more [...]

My father should have known better. He was a college graduate, a Army veteran of strategic bombing missions over Japan in 1945, and by the time I was old enough to understand what other people were saying to me about him, a respected figure in our community. I have distinct memories, corroborated by my elders when I was old enough to ask about them, of having been taken at the age of five for special intelligence testing at Boston University, that he knew there was something out of the ordinary about Read more [...]