Saturday, May 5, 2012

maverickclark: Mensa Baby

maverickclark: Mensa Baby: I haven't blogged in almost a year.  Why?  I had much to do and so little time. The Mensa baby, the youngest member to be inducted into th...

maverickclark: Following Still

maverickclark: Following Still: I am really tired of people who don't use their brains.  The upcoming presidential election is really showing off some people's stupidity le...

Friday, May 4, 2012

Following Still

I am really tired of people who don't use their brains.  The upcoming presidential election is really showing off some people's stupidity level.  Others are just plain lying.  I really hope that the masses can discern what is wrong and what is right.  Just take the unfair tax rate.  Think about it folks.  Why aren't we all rebelling in some way?  This is so obviously unfair. 

There are so many other obvious distortions.  I mean for our president to be called stupid is enough to send me into a tailspin.  Now, he isn't even being given credit for finding and killing America's most deadly enemy.  Come on now people; think for yourselves.  Stop listening to the rantings of fools.

Yellowdog

Mensa Baby

I haven't blogged in almost a year.  Why?  I had much to do and so little time.

The Mensa baby, the youngest member to be inducted into this brainy society, is 1 month shy of her third birthday.

They touted on May 3, 2012,  that this wonderfully gifted baby could read.

I immediately went to the video, anxious to see this child read.  What I saw was that the baby could call the letters and pronounce the word.

The trouble is the picture of the word is directly beneath the word.  "Whoa, wait just a tooting minute.  My two year old grand baby can do this and has been doing this same thing since the age of 2 years, three months".

 I taught her her letters and numbers.  She could immediately identify the letters, then the word that accompanied the letters because of the picture directly below or above the word.  I never saw this as reading, just as a really fast recognition of letters and patterns.  These skills are considered pre-reading ones.  This just means that my granddaughter is really ready for reading, but I don't say that she is reading.

Mensa folk, I know that you know this too.  So what else is qualifying this child for a Mensa membership?

All in the name of clear communication,
Yellowdog