The Magic of the Right Brain
From age 0-6,
the right brain is most active. After six, the left brain takes over for the rest of the
life.
"The left side of the brain is the seat of language and processes in a
logical and sequential order. The right side is more visual and processes intuitively,
holistically, and randomly." Quote
The way babies learn numbers is not by counting the dots, but by visual glance. If
you remember the movie Rain Man, the character played by Dustin Hoffman was the extreme of
the adult right-brain domination. He could tell how many matches in a box by glance at
them. The cards on the gambling table were pictures in his mind. 1+2=3 was not numerals to
him, but real objects. He had photographic memory. However, one should not worry about a
normal baby to grow up like him, because the rise of the left brain will take care of the
language and logical thinking.
So, between the ages 0-6, "the window of opportunity" described by Dr. Glenn Doman is presented to every parent with a
newborn.
For the life of your child, DO NOT MISS IT
Copyright (c) 2007 Hung Shar
PowerFlashCard is a baby flash card software
designed based on Dr. Glenn Doman
right brain teaching method. Glenn Doman was the pioneer in early
childhood education field. Glenn Doman started to train brain injured
children with baby flash cards at the beginning of 20th century. Glenn Doman discovered the
gradual development of brain injured children. Glenn Doman baby flash card cards
method now is applied to normal children baby at very early age. The same
practice is used in Japan also developed and pioneered by Shichida.
It is called in Japan shichida method. Glenn doman and shichida method
of early childhood education is adopted all over the world. The main
difference between the Glenn Doman method and shichida method is at
the repeat rate. Glenn Doman focuses on impression. Glenn Doman baby dot
flash card cards method flashes for a few times and move on. Glenn Doman
treats dots, words and pictures are all pictures, images to kids brain.
shichida baby flash card cards method focuses on repeated flashes. shichida flashes
many more times to a baby, and tries to let baby memorize the pictures or images.
Many parents ask me if the pattern of the dots on the math dot flash cards makes
the difference. If you read Glenn Doman book "How to Teach Your Baby Math",
you will see that Glenn Doman disregarded the pattern. To a baby, it's the
picture or image that matters. It's up to you to pick the focus, image or memorising.
Personally, I prefer Glenn Doman method to Shichida simply because I like to jump
around. I think my kids get bored very soon.
