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07. Jul 2006
Good for (older) kids, GREAT for adults!
I actually bought this book for myself -- a 30-year-old mom of three. i have been crocheting a long time, but i want to teach myself to knit, and have had problems in the past with instructional books intended for adults. It's easier to focus on the points at hand to learn with the simple layout of the book, large pictures and fewer words used to describe the methods. I don't feel the pictures are the best -- to simplify them, they're like drawn diagrams, and I don't quite find them clear enough to eliminate all the struggles of understanding the author's instructions. But combined with the written directions, it can be picked up, and I'm finding it more fun, and less intimidating, than with books intended to teach adults.
For a child learning to knit, I wouldn't recommend the book for one younger than nine unless someone would be able to help him or her with support interpreting the text.
In a nutshell, i dislike the pictures--I feel they're not clear enough. I do, however, like the simplified instruction and the logical sequence of learning the steps to knitting, and simple projects that are fun, and useful and will build the skill before moving on to the next lesson. I loved the pictures of children wearing up-to-date clothing items they made themselves, the inclusion of boys knitting in the photos, and the inherent lessons integrated to teach respect for natural fibers and their sources. My children have an interest in learning the fiber arts they see me working, and I plan to use this book to teach my two sons and my daughter to knit when they're ready. This book will prove a useful tool in teaching me, and teaching them.
08. Feb 2009
A book that should be read annually....
If you like C.S. Lewis's apologetic or fictional books, you may find a deep appreciation for the works of Gene Edwards. A Tale of Three Kings is a fictional tale based, very closely, on the lives of King Saul, King David and King Absolom (King David's first son to "inherit" the throne, before King Solomon). Mr. Edwards does a fantastic job interpreting scripture without rewriting it, and answers some very primal questions that we all either are asking, or should be, about the people in our lives who cause us pain.
The book is reasonably short, easy reading, and entertaining. I read it in one sitting because i was spellbound by it. Now I keep re-reading it annually, to keep the lessons fresh in my mind, and I keep buying new copies for the new friends I make, because in a non-threatening way, it has taught me to see why on earth a God who is supposed to be loving could allow some of the horrors we see around us. It won't answer *all* the questions, but it answers enough to help you get through the day if there is pain in your life that you can't understand. It is most useful if there is a particular person in your life you are struggling to live with, be it in your home, in your church, school or workplace. The book examines why God would permit them in a position of pain in your life, and how He expects *you* to take the responsibility to handle it with what He has provided for you ahead of time, without losing hope.
27. Aug 2009
Glad we bought it, and glad we bought it *on ebay*
1 von 1 finden das hilfreich We don't have the books that are offered with the set on television; what we bought is the 5 discs (the 2008 version, not the 2004) and the word cards that were included. We bought these in the hopes that it would help our autistic 4-year-old daughter become more verbal. She is capable of speaking, but has quite limited expressive ability and generally chooses not to. So we hoped this would expand her word base.
Well, i don't know if in the long run it will help her speak very much or not. But she is definitely learning to read. One nice thing about the mechanism this video uses to teach children to sight-read words is that they do know what the word means as they learn to read it. So since she is clearly learning to read, she is also expanding her reciprocal cognition. But that's not what we bought the videos for -- we want to give her words. We've been using the video for 2 weeks now, as instructed on the dvd's, and we haven't seen a lot of progress in her speech. That, though, is not what is promised; they promise that your child will learn to read, and in the 2 weeks we've used it, we're seeing our 4-year-old learn to read through sight-reading, which is how our other autistic child, now 9, got his start (at age 4). He now reads at a 6th-grade level phoenetically.
Concerning productive details about the series, it is clearly low-budget. Family and friends were used in the filming and voice-overs, but it isn't cheezy or irritating, actually (and it does help keep things simple, rather than overstimulating). The quality of the discs themselves is not the highest either--they scratch if you look at them wrong, so keep them away from your little ones! (Mine love to hold the case of the disc we're watching.) The case covers were easily pulled off by my 16-month-old when i left the room momentarily. So it's not for baby to play with, but who buys dvd's for that purpose anyway? :) Be more careful than i was!
The dvd's use real-life animals and children to demonstrate the words and gestures being taught to babies, and the scenes change often enough to keep a child's attention without being too quick to shift and overstimulating. Familiar music is a delightful change at intervals, and games at the end help the parent see if your child is developing the concept. Different fonts are used for the words so that children grasp normal letter variation and can have some flexibility in what they read. It is not recommended that you plunk your baby down in front of the TV and play this for them hoping they learn to read. Parental involvement is strongly encouraged, and it's fun to see your baby get excited about this time with you. Mine really do love it.
i'm glad we bought these dvd's because both my daughters enjoy them and are clearly learning from them, even in the short time we've had them. But i'm also glad i only paid $50 for my new DVD set, because of how cheap the discs are and the possibility i may have to replace them. $50 is a lot of money to my family, and i consider the purchase absolutely worth it. We loaned our set to our daughter's interventive preschool teacher (in an inclusive autistic classroom) and she reported that all the children loved it -- and that a few children who are nearly non-verbal were willing to speak some of the words taught on the DVD, and some participated in the physical activity. We plan to donate a set to her classroom after her glowing review of her students' responses.