Flash cards

A parent of one of my ex-pupils from school gave me some handy tips today on how to raise bright kids. I asked her for tips – not that she thought her boys were bright. And after I lamented on the lack of time I have to actually engage them in enriching activities every day, she told me to make full use of the six weeks of holidays, and that I am going to do.

So I pulled out some of the old flash cards that I made last year. I abandoned the flash cards the moment M started pre-school. I just didn’t have the energy to keep it up and that’s a lousy excuse. And while M started on flash cards when he was eight months old, I have not even started L on that and he’s already fourteen months. L also doesn’t know as many words as M did at the same age. M’s vocabulary at fourteen months was perhaps thrice as wide, no kidding.

M was keen to review the cards. I’ll see how long we can keep this up. I cannot do the Glenn Doman method of doing this five times a day, five sets of five words. Mine is the abridged version. But I suppose any exposure is better than none. Today’s words were of some of his favourite food – egg, spaghetti, cake, ice-cream and bread. L’s words for tomorrow would be Mummy, Daddy, car, clock and socks.