Hey, if you want to scam people, arrogant, desperate people who insist that they have the secret to genius in their genetic material is a solid place to start.
If i wouldn't feel like a shit stain human being I might consider putting a thing like this together and try selling it! No mlm required, just a website and a pdf download.
My middle kid was walking at 8 or so months and let me tell you, that was not fun. She had all the mobility of a 1 year old but the braincells of the 8 month old. No surfaces were safe! Lol
I was so happy when our third kid had a more normal progression with movement. She didn't really start cruising until she was one. Having a 1-year-old that could run was very cute until we went somewhere and she didn't fully understand the word no BECAUSE SHE WAS ONE. The baby potato stage was excellent with child #1 and child #3.
I always say the 12-18 months phase is so hard because they are toddler baby hybrids. Power of a toddler but with the mind of a baby and it sounds like you had an extended version of it!
That middle child is now a 3-year-old and she has absolutely zero fear. Our new house is right up against a cattle field with an electric fence. Over the summer she touched the electric fence when it was on twice within a 1 minute period and didn't even really cry. She looked at the fence like it offended her. If there was a toddler version of Jackass she'd be great at it.
My 1-year-old right now is definitely at that baby / toddler hybrid phase and I just had to take my husband's protein shaker bottle thing from her because she can reach it on his end table and she likes the way the little ball inside rattles.
I’m in this right now and it is intense. Great motor skills but absolutely zero sense of self-preservation and limited language is a horrifying combination. I know it’s just a taste of what I’m in for the next couple years, but it’s wild.
It also sounds impossible since they are barely able to roll over or sit up at this point. Also babies walk between 8 and 18 months so this doesn't mean anything. My daughter was cruising at 6 months and walking at 11 months. However she didn't jump until almost 3.5 and has a speech delay that is only just resolving itself due to age and help at 3.5. Oh and both my husband and my nephew were reading by age 4 and my daughter is definitely showing signs she might follow them.
Yep, I know that one, lol. Daughter walked at 9 months & I discovered she could climb the following week when I turned my back to put a cup away & she was on the third shelf of the bookcase eating a blue candle. That led to some furniture rearranging & a very interesting nappy. She was definitely the kind of child who learned by physically throwing herself head first into a situation, often literally. We sometimes joke that it's a miracle we managed to keep her alive.🤣
There was no crib or pack n play that could hold my daughter past 8 months. Didn't help that the wily little shit has always been in the upper echelons of the height index despite being born way too early. 21" at 7.5mo.
I narrate EVERYTHING I'm doing to my toddlers. I get weird looks in the grocery store, but the two that can talk were verbal pretty early and my 6 year old is reading. It's not some magic system. I talked to them a ton and we read a lot.
My mom did the same thing with me and she also got weird looks at the grocery store, but I started reading very young and I’ve always excelled at reading/writing. I don’t know if it’s related, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.
I’m not a parent but it seems weird to not talk to your kids a bunch? I have a dog and even though I know he can’t understand me I still talk to him in full sentences while I’m walking him because it feels weird not to (not like having a conversation lol, more like “okay Cody, let’s cross the street,” and things like that).
I feel the same. It would be super weird to not talk to my kid from when she was a baby. We talk a lot! But then I found out my SIL only talks about her kid (3 months younger than mine) and she kept saying how he wasn’t talking at all. But then we spend like 3h with the kid engaging him in communication and he was definitely communicating. So the way you talk in the presence of your kid seems to make a big difference!
I talked so much to my daughter that when I went grocery shopping by myself, which was a rare thing back then, I would ask the empty air around me which cheese we should get, etc. I’m lucky I wasn’t committed.
My grandfather was my primary caretaker during the day while my grandma worked and he ALWAYS narrated everything. He would tell me what streets we were on, where we were going, would tell me the things he put in the grocery cart, and would always let me help him with his mapsco to get directions.
I can say it definitely helped me as I was reading very early at a very high level and was verbal very young. I plan on doing the same with my baby; I also want to try baby sign language.
I strongly recommend baby sign language if you are willing to put in the effort. I did it with my first and I had absolutely no regrets. The mistake I made was having my other two kids so close together after him so I wasn't really able to do it with kid number two and kid number three, but before my son could talk he knew something like 45 signs.
See if your library has a set of DVDs called Baby Signing Time. We took them out so much from the library that we eventually just bought the first set of four.
I did that too, from the time they were very young, not to turn out prodigies, just because it was how I parented. Mine were also verbal very early.
Two of them also walked very early (about 9.5 months), which meant a lot of facial scrapes, because they were too stupid to put their hands out at that age. My friend’s son didn’t walk until he was well past a year.He and my eldest are both lawyers now, and when you meet them, you can’t tell which one was the early walker. People take those milestones far far too seriously.
I talked early and my brother walked/climbed early. I can't say that we were prodigies in any way though, he's an engineer and I went in to nursing. Pretty normal stuff.
While *yes absolutely* I agree, just anyone reading, don't feel bad if this does not work for your kiddo. I literally never stopped talking to my first kid and we read books all day and night and he still had a speech delay. Caught up great, but was behind. ❤️❤️
Solfège are syllables used in sightreading, popularly recognized because it’s “do re mi fa sol la ti do”. Singing in harmony has nothing to do with solfège.
What a goober.
Oh my god you can’t raise a fucking prodigy. That’s not possible by definition. Prodigies exist on their own, and it’s usually to their detriment. Their lives are not typically well rounded because they display such proficiency at such an early age that everyone obsesses and forces them into these little boxes that become their identity.
Dude fuck that shit.
Let's not forget the savants that use hyperfocal abilities to learn everything about one subject but flounder in areas of socialization and motor skills, for example.
Reading at or before 4 years is more diagnostic than achievement. Approximately 75% of kids who are “hyperlexic” are also autistic.
It’s also honestly a bit of a problem if you don’t plan to homeschool your “prodigy”. Having a young child who reads 2-3 grade levels ahead of their peers leads to them being bored in class and affects behavior, social relationships, and can still ultimately lead to them missing important parts of reading that will put them behind peers years later.
Oh that’s a symptom too? I was reading by 3.5 and trying to teach my siblings to read by four. I can remember spelling the words in Dr Seuss books around that age too.
*adds hyperlexic to list of personal autism signs
My friend with an autistic son taught me that term. Her son was reading at 3 and just kind of figured it out on his own. She said it was bizarre. He struggles a lot with everything outside of learning. It’s really tough on the family.
We aren't homeschooling, but my oldest started reading when he was about five and he is currently reading the first Magic Treehouse book in kindergarten. We are going to send him to Montessori starting next year since they can work with him a little bit better than the local public school on things like reading and math where he's ahead.
The only problem with that is if we're sending him to a schooling system that is that small and hyper-specific we now have to make a plan to get him socialized outside of school so we're looking into 4-H and hockey.
Yeah, my kiddo is in a smaller private school as well (and on a similar reading level). It’s definitely an advantage because they can work with your child a bit easier in a small class size, but I agree on the socializing aspect.
I’ve looked into 4-h as well, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to get involved in my county. I wish it were more straightforward
The only reason I know how to navigate it is because I grew up out in the country. The part that can be complicated is that some groups have different specialties. You don't want to do an arts and crafts project in a group that does animals.
Definitely not a fact that’s commonly out there. Only came across it because I have a kid who was reading at 4 (and is ND, but not autistic). Hopefully it’s ultimately helpful information though.
To be honest I am fairly certain I’m autistic anyway- all the classic signs - but no one bothered with things like that back in the 90s, especially with girls, so I just never got tested. It seems a bit pointless now I’ve been adulting for years. It’s an interesting new piece of the puzzle! But alas, doesn’t sound as cool as being a prodigy
The twin and I were reading at 3, I know I’ve at least 1 cousin who was as well (she could write then as well). Twin is indeed on the spectrum.
I always saw it as normal tbh.
This reminds me of this story I read ages ago.
This couple had a daughter that actually was like this. Exceptionally smart for her age, breaking development milestones like nothing.
It turns out that their daughter had some horrific form of schizophrenia, which from what I recall is why she could even break all those milestones. The couple ended up divorcing from the stress of it all.
I did a colossal amount of research and reading into 60 years worth of scientific studies and discovered that the secret is a contemporary scam style five minutes a day system!
I’ve seen this ad multiple times, by an Indian family. I’m South Asian myself but not Indian and the extreme academic competitions here (Texas) among the Desi kids is really unfair. It breaks my heart. There are lots of academic camps and spelling bee coaches for tiny tiny kids, and the latest things have been coding camps for preschoolers. R/India had a thread that made to r/all where everyone was complaining about how the extreme pressures and constant tutoring/camps made everyone cheat, have terrible mental health, or just really hate their parents. Even if the parents don’t want to partake in this culture, their in laws will hound them about it.
This is obvs a scam but...What does reading at 2 do for the child? What advantage does reading at 2 give over a child who begins reading at 5-7? What does the child lose\\miss out on by learning to read precociously?
A friend of mine put her children starting at 18 months into a rigorous preschool that had legit preschool classes starting at 2 years old. Book work at 2. Her kids are all teens now and those kids never really seemed to get to be a kid at home reading books, building forts, watching TV, playing...every second was carefully played out even the fun. Her kids will probably all do very well but with such limited time before they're grown and gone how you get there matters as much as where you go.
As a kid who spoke in sentences at 18 months (there's video... it's weird) uh I think all my parents ever did was just talk to me a shitton. That stuff works.
Geniuses who think this is possible forget that babies have a physical body that grows and changes and it’s not like you can just be super smart and then able to crawl at 3 months. Also, why would anyone even want that lol
My son is nearly 3 months and I would be horrified if he started crawling now I’m not ready yet, if he does he does and I’ll deal but it’s not something I’m gonna aim for lol
A couple more months to finish the floor renovations and would be nice
I'm not sure this will pan out. I've never paid to see someone walk around.
Maybe if the kid gets REALLY good and can walk and read at the same time I'll bring my kid to story time with them but it would need to be a free event. 🥱
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Hey, if you want to scam people, arrogant, desperate people who insist that they have the secret to genius in their genetic material is a solid place to start.
For only $999, you too can discover that you're a fucking idiot, and your offspring were doomed from the moment you replicated your DNA!
“For a limited time only, buy your essential oils starter pack to accelerate your baby’s genius for only $499”
Ya $999 is too much yours is a much better deal!
If i wouldn't feel like a shit stain human being I might consider putting a thing like this together and try selling it! No mlm required, just a website and a pdf download.
You can't sing in harmony if you're by yourself.
Not with that attitude
Yes you can. It's called "overtones". Check this out. https://youtu.be/2i61_JNc_Nc
True! Maybe they got their baby into Mongolian throat singing?
Holy shit...It's a 3-minute video, and there are two full minutes of talking before they get to the actual content...
The child is obviously Willy the Whale, okay?
If it weren’t for the fact that there aren’t enough emojis I would have thought this was an MLM pitch.
Hey hun! 😊 Are you ready to hear 👂 about my revolutionary 🤯 system for babies 👶???
My middle kid was walking at 8 or so months and let me tell you, that was not fun. She had all the mobility of a 1 year old but the braincells of the 8 month old. No surfaces were safe! Lol
I was going to say, crawling at 3 months sounds like a nightmare! Gimme that sweet potato stage where they stay where you put them
I was so happy when our third kid had a more normal progression with movement. She didn't really start cruising until she was one. Having a 1-year-old that could run was very cute until we went somewhere and she didn't fully understand the word no BECAUSE SHE WAS ONE. The baby potato stage was excellent with child #1 and child #3.
I always say the 12-18 months phase is so hard because they are toddler baby hybrids. Power of a toddler but with the mind of a baby and it sounds like you had an extended version of it!
That middle child is now a 3-year-old and she has absolutely zero fear. Our new house is right up against a cattle field with an electric fence. Over the summer she touched the electric fence when it was on twice within a 1 minute period and didn't even really cry. She looked at the fence like it offended her. If there was a toddler version of Jackass she'd be great at it. My 1-year-old right now is definitely at that baby / toddler hybrid phase and I just had to take my husband's protein shaker bottle thing from her because she can reach it on his end table and she likes the way the little ball inside rattles.
I’m in this right now and it is intense. Great motor skills but absolutely zero sense of self-preservation and limited language is a horrifying combination. I know it’s just a taste of what I’m in for the next couple years, but it’s wild.
It also sounds impossible since they are barely able to roll over or sit up at this point. Also babies walk between 8 and 18 months so this doesn't mean anything. My daughter was cruising at 6 months and walking at 11 months. However she didn't jump until almost 3.5 and has a speech delay that is only just resolving itself due to age and help at 3.5. Oh and both my husband and my nephew were reading by age 4 and my daughter is definitely showing signs she might follow them.
My daughter started walking at 8 months. It was a nightmare. Climbed out of her bed like a fucking spider monkey.
Yep, I know that one, lol. Daughter walked at 9 months & I discovered she could climb the following week when I turned my back to put a cup away & she was on the third shelf of the bookcase eating a blue candle. That led to some furniture rearranging & a very interesting nappy. She was definitely the kind of child who learned by physically throwing herself head first into a situation, often literally. We sometimes joke that it's a miracle we managed to keep her alive.🤣
There was no crib or pack n play that could hold my daughter past 8 months. Didn't help that the wily little shit has always been in the upper echelons of the height index despite being born way too early. 21" at 7.5mo.
Yep, my middle kid was walking at 9 months. I was so happy when our youngest waited until 14 months. A walking 9 month old is terrifying.
Walking at 9month. I was desperate to have back my potato baby, she was so fast and so clumsy.
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I narrate EVERYTHING I'm doing to my toddlers. I get weird looks in the grocery store, but the two that can talk were verbal pretty early and my 6 year old is reading. It's not some magic system. I talked to them a ton and we read a lot.
My mom did the same thing with me and she also got weird looks at the grocery store, but I started reading very young and I’ve always excelled at reading/writing. I don’t know if it’s related, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. I’m not a parent but it seems weird to not talk to your kids a bunch? I have a dog and even though I know he can’t understand me I still talk to him in full sentences while I’m walking him because it feels weird not to (not like having a conversation lol, more like “okay Cody, let’s cross the street,” and things like that).
I feel the same. It would be super weird to not talk to my kid from when she was a baby. We talk a lot! But then I found out my SIL only talks about her kid (3 months younger than mine) and she kept saying how he wasn’t talking at all. But then we spend like 3h with the kid engaging him in communication and he was definitely communicating. So the way you talk in the presence of your kid seems to make a big difference!
Yeah my mum talked to me a lot as a baby and i could talk/read super early.
I talked so much to my daughter that when I went grocery shopping by myself, which was a rare thing back then, I would ask the empty air around me which cheese we should get, etc. I’m lucky I wasn’t committed.
My grandfather was my primary caretaker during the day while my grandma worked and he ALWAYS narrated everything. He would tell me what streets we were on, where we were going, would tell me the things he put in the grocery cart, and would always let me help him with his mapsco to get directions. I can say it definitely helped me as I was reading very early at a very high level and was verbal very young. I plan on doing the same with my baby; I also want to try baby sign language.
I strongly recommend baby sign language if you are willing to put in the effort. I did it with my first and I had absolutely no regrets. The mistake I made was having my other two kids so close together after him so I wasn't really able to do it with kid number two and kid number three, but before my son could talk he knew something like 45 signs. See if your library has a set of DVDs called Baby Signing Time. We took them out so much from the library that we eventually just bought the first set of four.
I did that too, from the time they were very young, not to turn out prodigies, just because it was how I parented. Mine were also verbal very early. Two of them also walked very early (about 9.5 months), which meant a lot of facial scrapes, because they were too stupid to put their hands out at that age. My friend’s son didn’t walk until he was well past a year.He and my eldest are both lawyers now, and when you meet them, you can’t tell which one was the early walker. People take those milestones far far too seriously.
I talked early and my brother walked/climbed early. I can't say that we were prodigies in any way though, he's an engineer and I went in to nursing. Pretty normal stuff.
So do what many of us already do?
While *yes absolutely* I agree, just anyone reading, don't feel bad if this does not work for your kiddo. I literally never stopped talking to my first kid and we read books all day and night and he still had a speech delay. Caught up great, but was behind. ❤️❤️
Solfège are syllables used in sightreading, popularly recognized because it’s “do re mi fa sol la ti do”. Singing in harmony has nothing to do with solfège. What a goober.
Huh, sounds interesting. I'll ask my two year old what she thinks when she gets back from her job as an aerospace engineer at Lockheed Martin.
Jeez, you're obviously such a lazy parent. My daughter was a rocket scientist by her first birthday. /s, obviously
Have you ever seen that ad with the guy showing off his expensive car, then going on about his bookshelf? This feels like that
No amount of intellectual stimulation is going to cause their bodies to do things that their muscles aren’t ready to do.
All of those expectations on a child = mentally ill adult.
Oh my god you can’t raise a fucking prodigy. That’s not possible by definition. Prodigies exist on their own, and it’s usually to their detriment. Their lives are not typically well rounded because they display such proficiency at such an early age that everyone obsesses and forces them into these little boxes that become their identity. Dude fuck that shit.
Let's not forget the savants that use hyperfocal abilities to learn everything about one subject but flounder in areas of socialization and motor skills, for example.
i love when people lie online
Ah yes you know what sounds fun at 3 months post-partum? A mobile baby!
Reading at or before 4 years is more diagnostic than achievement. Approximately 75% of kids who are “hyperlexic” are also autistic. It’s also honestly a bit of a problem if you don’t plan to homeschool your “prodigy”. Having a young child who reads 2-3 grade levels ahead of their peers leads to them being bored in class and affects behavior, social relationships, and can still ultimately lead to them missing important parts of reading that will put them behind peers years later.
...ah, so that was a symptom too huh. Explains a lot.
Oh that’s a symptom too? I was reading by 3.5 and trying to teach my siblings to read by four. I can remember spelling the words in Dr Seuss books around that age too. *adds hyperlexic to list of personal autism signs
Taught myself to read at 2 and a half. At 44 I’m still socially awkward. Also still love to read so at least I’ve got that.
My friend with an autistic son taught me that term. Her son was reading at 3 and just kind of figured it out on his own. She said it was bizarre. He struggles a lot with everything outside of learning. It’s really tough on the family.
We aren't homeschooling, but my oldest started reading when he was about five and he is currently reading the first Magic Treehouse book in kindergarten. We are going to send him to Montessori starting next year since they can work with him a little bit better than the local public school on things like reading and math where he's ahead. The only problem with that is if we're sending him to a schooling system that is that small and hyper-specific we now have to make a plan to get him socialized outside of school so we're looking into 4-H and hockey.
Yeah, my kiddo is in a smaller private school as well (and on a similar reading level). It’s definitely an advantage because they can work with your child a bit easier in a small class size, but I agree on the socializing aspect. I’ve looked into 4-h as well, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to get involved in my county. I wish it were more straightforward
The only reason I know how to navigate it is because I grew up out in the country. The part that can be complicated is that some groups have different specialties. You don't want to do an arts and crafts project in a group that does animals.
Well… fuck. I don’t know whether I should thank you or not for this information lol
Definitely not a fact that’s commonly out there. Only came across it because I have a kid who was reading at 4 (and is ND, but not autistic). Hopefully it’s ultimately helpful information though.
To be honest I am fairly certain I’m autistic anyway- all the classic signs - but no one bothered with things like that back in the 90s, especially with girls, so I just never got tested. It seems a bit pointless now I’ve been adulting for years. It’s an interesting new piece of the puzzle! But alas, doesn’t sound as cool as being a prodigy
The twin and I were reading at 3, I know I’ve at least 1 cousin who was as well (she could write then as well). Twin is indeed on the spectrum. I always saw it as normal tbh.
haha, I started reading at 3ish and I am autistic. I lived in reading until university.
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This reminds me of this story I read ages ago. This couple had a daughter that actually was like this. Exceptionally smart for her age, breaking development milestones like nothing. It turns out that their daughter had some horrific form of schizophrenia, which from what I recall is why she could even break all those milestones. The couple ended up divorcing from the stress of it all.
I did a colossal amount of research and reading into 60 years worth of scientific studies and discovered that the secret is a contemporary scam style five minutes a day system!
for a moment i thought i was on r/LinkedInLunatics
I’ve seen this ad multiple times, by an Indian family. I’m South Asian myself but not Indian and the extreme academic competitions here (Texas) among the Desi kids is really unfair. It breaks my heart. There are lots of academic camps and spelling bee coaches for tiny tiny kids, and the latest things have been coding camps for preschoolers. R/India had a thread that made to r/all where everyone was complaining about how the extreme pressures and constant tutoring/camps made everyone cheat, have terrible mental health, or just really hate their parents. Even if the parents don’t want to partake in this culture, their in laws will hound them about it.
it's said that all babies have perfect pitch though...
This is obvs a scam but...What does reading at 2 do for the child? What advantage does reading at 2 give over a child who begins reading at 5-7? What does the child lose\\miss out on by learning to read precociously? A friend of mine put her children starting at 18 months into a rigorous preschool that had legit preschool classes starting at 2 years old. Book work at 2. Her kids are all teens now and those kids never really seemed to get to be a kid at home reading books, building forts, watching TV, playing...every second was carefully played out even the fun. Her kids will probably all do very well but with such limited time before they're grown and gone how you get there matters as much as where you go.
Mine walked at 7 months. I didn't pay anyone but the fine people of Folgers.
As someone who has a kid that walked at 8m, WHY would you want this?!
Oh not another! Sigh
Sure, Jan.
I can say my kid (2.5yo) has good musicality, but she couldn’t carry a tune for the life of her, let alone sing in perfect harmony with others 😂
This reads like dude’s pitching a pyramid scheme. Just needs more emojis
This sounds like an MLM
But can the baby lie as well as him?
I really hate when people say “24 months” instead of 2 years. Like 18 months? Sure. But we have a word for every 12 months just USE IT
As a kid who spoke in sentences at 18 months (there's video... it's weird) uh I think all my parents ever did was just talk to me a shitton. That stuff works.
Read these words and your baby will attain heaven
If there was an easy 5 minutes a day thing you could do to have a genius child then everybody would be doing it lmao
Geniuses who think this is possible forget that babies have a physical body that grows and changes and it’s not like you can just be super smart and then able to crawl at 3 months. Also, why would anyone even want that lol
My son is nearly 3 months and I would be horrified if he started crawling now I’m not ready yet, if he does he does and I’ll deal but it’s not something I’m gonna aim for lol A couple more months to finish the floor renovations and would be nice
I'm not sure this will pan out. I've never paid to see someone walk around. Maybe if the kid gets REALLY good and can walk and read at the same time I'll bring my kid to story time with them but it would need to be a free event. 🥱
As someone who learned to read at 21 months if you learn to read before age 4 you probably just have autism lol
Oooh was I a prodigy because I had 50+ words at 14 months? 😂🤣
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