Both kids learned quite a bit about mechanics from me though. They did a lot of experimenting. Most of which I would rather they had not done. smile My son saw Mom and Dad putting gas in the car, so he tried to put some in his power wheels car. fortunately, I had the battery out, charging it. that could have turned rather nasty. He also destroyed a couple of lawn mowers, taking them apart, but losing key parts, so that Dad couldn't put them back together. It was lots of fun. smile He was constantly bringing me things he'd managed to take apart, but had no clue how to put back together, or he'd put them back together, *backward* so they wouldn't work. Kid managed to pull out one of those child proof things you put in electrical outlets, and stuck a screwdriver in. Made a nice bunch of sparks and crackling noises I can tell you! My kids got really sneaky, and really quick at doing things that Parents probably wouldn't aprove of. My daughter managed to climb on top of the organ bench, which was on the top of the organ. to this day, I can't figure out how she managed that one at 9 months. Since there wasn't an obvious route she took. One minute, I answered the phone, next minute I heard her making noise from 6 feet off the ground! I nearly had a coronary over that one, I can tell you. If my kids show as much initiative at work as they did at getting into things as young children, they'll both be top executives in Fortune 500 companies. grin. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gail The U. S. Male Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:43 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books Andrew could certainly start learning Braille at age three, as long as Cassandra teaches him. My kids are both sighted, and didn't want to learn to read, not being interested, but looking at the pictures. We both read to them, but their interest was television. Part of that was their Mom had TV going 24 hours a day, and didn't take that much of an interest in interacting with the kids. I did what I could, but was constantly undermined, so, not much was gained. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:23 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books Thanks for the info, Gail. I'm wondering--if a bright sighted child who has the inclination and desire can be reading by age 3 (as mine were, just from my reading to them and their following along, and some books that had certain words in the story that the child could read when the parent story-teller cme to it--and Sesame Street and Electric Company), and if young chldren who are brought up with another language in addition to English is in the house can be bilingual at a very young age, by couldn't a child as bright as Kasondra's Andrew seems to be, who seems to want to read, also learn braille at a young age? I think Kasondra is right to start to teach him when he's three. One can make a game of it. Speaking of which--I remembered when I was young how I enjoyed playing with alphabet blocks, and I bought them when my children were very young and played with them with them and made simple words which they read. But I've never seen Braille blocks. I gather from posts here that one doesn't learn Braille letter by letter but that there is a short of short-hand. Maybe one of you could invent and create a graduated set of Braille blocks for kids. The first set would be the simplest words that they need to learn, and they can play at making sentences (Pat the dog; the dog ate his food). A more advanced set could be whatever the next phase is. And I won't even take a cut of the profits for my idea (lol). Cindy --- "Gail The U. S. Male" <gail1959@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cindy, indeed, some forms of blindness are > hereditary. Most totally blind > kids start learning Braille in either Kindergarten > or first grade. The child > could be taught at a younger age, I suppose, but > most kids aren't. > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of Cindy > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books > > > That's a cute story, Kasondra. How old does a child > have to be before he can start learning to read in > Braille? Are you and/or your husband bind? Are some > forms of blindness hereditary? Forgive me if I'm > being > too personal. > > Cindy > > --- Kasondra Payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Cindy, > > > > I just walked in my bedroom to answer the phone, > and > > I found my two-year-old > > son, Andrew on the floor, trying to read a Harry > > Potter book. My husband > > always keeps one on his side of the bed, and > Andrew > > just took off the cover, > > opened the book, and started turning pages. 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