The Start of Tot School

From the time Meera was conceived I had started reading quite a bit about how to start 'educating' a baby. The information I came across was endless and quite overwhelming. There were lots of opinions and many were contradicting each other. Ultimately I decided that I would attempt to expose her to some stuff and see how she responded.

One of the earliest methods I tried was the Glenn Doman approach. I got a couple of his books and attempted to follow the instructions in it. However I found it was too regimented for me. I was never able to fit in all the 'exercises' that were recommended in any given day. There were so many different things to do and each thing had to be repeated too many times. After a few lame attempts I gave up. I persevered with reading flashcards but once Meera started crawling I had to give up on that as well. She simply would not sit still long enough for me to show more than one card a t a time!

I still felt that there should be something that I could do to encourage and improve on her developing skills. So I trolled the internet....and came across a lot of sites that were dedicated to exposing a toddler (to everything from alphabets to physics!) Some of these sites were so full of information that quite honestly I felt like a real slacker! the amazing thing was that these people had the time to actually do all sorts of activities with their kids and then BLOG about it! Hmmphh! Talk about peer pressure...

So one of the sites that I came across was called Tot School and it was full of links to others sites with parents of similar minds all trying to do stuff with their kids. So I decided to give it a go. Of course I was not as ambitious as most of them but I did incorporate some of their ideas. At least it gave me something productive to do with Meera. Beats sitting her in front of the TV!

So here's some of the stuff we did....

introducing the colour yellow....

PlayDoh...

Puzzles.