Gentle Early Learning Program: Infants and Toddlers Product Details Stock #: MM-182 Price: $ 820.45Special: $699.95 Dear Parents, Thank you for your kind patience in waiting for the Right Brain Education Infant Learning Course. Until our course is available, we would like to suggest the following products to begin early learning in your home.    All products are available for purchase separately on this site, but if you would like to purchase them together we would like to help you defray the cost by offering a bulk discount price.    (See below.) EARLY LEARNING MATERIALS Each area listed is key for early neurological development. MATH - NEW! Math Spots Flashcard Video    (45 lessons including number quantities 1-100, addition, subtraction, multiplication through skip counting, geometry, fractions, and review)* - Numbers 1-50 flashcards - Geometric Shapes flashcards - Pocket Math Flashcards 1-25 (two sets to use both for matching card play) - Telling Time flashcards READING/VOCABULARY BUILDERS - "Your Baby Can Read" 5-video series - American Start with English flashcards - Pocket flashcards       - Alphabet (two sets to use as matching card games for children ages 18+ months)       - Animals (two sets to use as matching card games for children ages 18+ months)       - Phonics (two sets to use as matching card games for children ages 18+ months)       - Sign Language (two sets to use as matching card games for children ages 18+ months) - Picture Word Cards - More Picture Word Cards - FREE downloadable flashcards on our site! FOREIGN LANGUAGES - Smart Baby Flashcard Video    (Spanish, German, English, French, Russian, Japanese) - Sound Beginnings CD (Spanish, German, English, Hebrew, French, Russian, Japanese) - AlphaBits for Children foreign language flashcards (English, German, French, Spanish) - Picture Word Cards--In Spanish (Palabras e imagenes) - More Picture Word Cards--In Spanish (Mas palabras e imagenes) VISUAL ENHANCEMENT (FIRST STEP IN PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY) - Babyscapes (black and white) - Celebration of color (primary/secondary colors) - FREE downloadable flashcards on our site! LEFT/RIGHT BRAIN INTEGRATION - Brainy Baby Right and Left Brain Videos MUSIC/PERFECT PITCH/RESONANCE - Tuning Forks with Perfect Pitch play booklet, flashcards and matching card set - Instruments of Classical Music 10-CD Set - FREE downloadable flashcards on our site! WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ENVIRONMENT We do suggest a well-prepared environment where the child can explore and access many different types of activities.    Low shelves--where a child can see the lessons and handle the items easily--are ideal.    Also, flashcards can be placed in view where the child can point and ask for them.    The environment should be safe and friendly, where he can express his independence and creativity as much as possible. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT The child's right brain development is supported best in an environment of love and acceptance.    Children ages 0-3 will develop highly sensitive right brain function when exposed gently to learning concepts and then allowed ample time to play with them. Left brain development occurs mainly when the corpus callosum, a band of nerve fibers which connects the right and left hemisphere of the brain, is developed enough to begin transferring information back and forth between hemispheres.    Before that time, the infant largely works out of the right brain. IMPORTANT TO KNOW:    Many infants develop their right brain intuition naturally in a home environment without any "special lessons" at all!    Infants who are loved, encouraged to interact with nature, caring people and creative projects will feel secure and happy--the best start the right brain can get! Yet left brain development is important, too, and when sensitively combined with right brain development, can boost whole brain learning. RECOMMENDED MAXIMUM TIMES/ACTIVITIES Much one-on-one lesson time can be considered more left-brain structured play.    For this reason, you do not want to exceed a certain amount of time per day.    The recommended maximum times are listed below, but remember each child is unique and develops according to a highly personal timetable.    When determining activities--what to teach, when and for how long--FOLLOW THE CHILD. Newborns, 0-6 months........up to 2-10 minute lessons per day. No videos.    We suggest tuning forks, black and white visual imaging cards, colors, foreign language tapes/cds, and flashcards. Infants 6-12 months.........up to 2-15 minute lessons per day. Use videos sparingly--videos with gentle images and sound only.    (All videos sold through our company are fine for use with infants.)    We suggest tuning forks, black and white visual imaging cards, colors, foreign language tapes/cds, and flashcards. Infants 12-18 months........up to 2-15 minute lessons per day. Use all parts of the program.    Reinforce concepts learned from flashcards with matching cards.    Watch for signs of disinterest.    If child feels pushed, stop that part of the program.    If child is excited about another aspect of development (walking, running, talking, play), his attention may temporarily wane in terms of lesson time.    Give child plenty of time to play, learn from his environment, speak with you, help with household chores and feel like an important valued part of his family. Toddlers 18-24 months.......up to 2-15 minute lessons per day. Same as above.    You may begin asking a child questions about the flashcards he has seen. Toddlers 25-30 months.......up to 40 minutes per day in total lesson time. Same as above.    Introduce arts and crafts, writing, drawing, memory play.    Also begin word-building with phonics. Toddlers 31-36 months....... up to 40 minutes per day in total lesson time. Same as above.    If child is ready, actively play with word-building, sentence-building, math equations, and left brain critical thinking games.