Teaching your baby : baby learn the quran!

I love to sing. Fortunately, I am fully aware that I have no talent whatsoever to speak of. So when I became pregnant with Maryam, I knew that's my ready audience right there!

I started singing to her in the early days. Incy wincy spider, 25 rasul, the salawat, ol tok dolah has a farm, twinkle2, one two buckle my shoe.and the list go on and on. there was no stopping the karaoke song list!

We also got her lots of soft books and baby books with hard pages.

But we did neglect to teach her the quran. it was my elder sister, who is my other guru *and also maryam's ibu susuan, love!* aside from my mom, who introduced me to Islamic Parenting Network! and how they start teaching children to read the quran at a very young age.

As you know, I teach Maryam to swim on my own to avoid the expensive swimming classes fees *cheaaaapppp* but i truly decided to teach her the Quran because I want her to learn the basic of reading Arabic, and tajweed from me, myself!I have been observing that most parents find it a must to send their child to learn the Quran from a teacher at around 6 to 7 years because they feel they cant teach the kids themselves.
I say different. We started having a tajweed class organized at work once a week this year and the primary reason we decided to do so is so that we can teach our own children. The ustazah is one of our officers who is certified by the Johor Islamic Council to teach. We couldnt be more proud! Allah has made the path so easy for us. A certified tajweed teacher among us. Masha Allah!

I bought the package for 12-18 year old children from here. The package consist of many items but the one i like best is the flashcards! Maryam loves it to.
Islamic Parenting Network says that its best to start teaching at the age of 10 months. We startes Maryam at 12. I feel its okay. Now that you know, of course its best to start em young but if you just find out, start now no matter what age your child is.

Another helpful teaching material *although not necessarily the best, i think* are the learning hijaiyah alphabet youtube videos. Maryam loves them, albeit overly much. She would say " Ba ta sa, ba ta sa! apet!which really means iPad.sigh "
I'd say try to recite the alphabet to the baby yourself, and use the youtube videos when the situation really calls for it! Here's to hoping our children wont become apet iPad addicts T______T

The thing about babies is there is so much things to teach them and they wont get confused or burdened or stressed out. unlike us, old people hahahaha
But of course mengajarlah dengan fun, lembut and penuh kasih sayang. Let them move at their own pace. Learning should be fun and a lifelong process!

To me the idea of early education is not to push them babies incessantly, acting like crazy, anal parents.

Its about assisting your child to learn as much as they are capable of, achieve their most potentil, instead of wasting their time on their backs, staring at the ceiling.

we can do it moms!insyaAllah!

Early education : how early is EARLY?

My mom is passionate about early education for infants.
But having ten children, close in age, she did not have enough time to train each babies.
She however manage to fully practise training infants on one of my brother, the seventh child.
And she said his progress was much faster than the rest of us, which is to say a lot since non of us are slow or lagging compared to other babies.
She said my brother was not necessarily a genius, only trained.
and that has been my tagline when preaching early education to friends. trained or untrained?
I remember her using this book called How to Have a Brighter Child. Mom said it was by an australian author.I looked it up online tp tak jumpa.
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Well, you can only imagine how paranoid she became when my sister got pregnant with her first grandchild. she went an bought a book on early education for my sister.

'how to have a smarter baby' by Dr. Susan Ludington-Hoe. *i suck at uploading photos.bear with me.google it up will ya!*

Naturally when I got pregnant, my mom n sister couldnt stop pestering me enought to prepare for baby's early education
So I bought a copy of the same book and start reading.
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Early education for babies actually starts from the day she was born. Its easy for us to assume that infants do not understand much and teaching should start well after they became toddlers.
Well, this is how parents lose the most precious period of their babies lives!
Early education is all about starting early.
Human beings absorbs n learns faster in the first two months of our lives.
The rate gets lower but is still very high in the first six months.
and then it just gradually decreases.
Which explains why its hard for us to absorb new things when we are older.
and why babies absorb like a sponge!
one classic mistake about early education is it burdens the baby.


" i dont want to push them too early, imagine the pressure they face having to learn so much at such a tender age, oh, why overeact on it, babies are babies, just focus on their growing up, then start teaching them"


do you know that infants and babies loooove to learn. they just have the thirst for it.
and your baby is actually enjoying all this "learning" time.
for us practising early education makes my husband and i realize that if not for the book, we wouldnt know what to play with the baby. What game is most appropriate and in sync with her progress that month.
And besides our baby loves it!

I am definitely going to blog more on early education. until then, for pregnant mothers out there, start researching on this, and you will be doing yourselves and your babies the biggest favor!huge!

and besides, who better to be our child's first teacher but us!
and look up Glenn Doman! he is an advocate of infants ability to learn.
start educating your babies using methods that has been studied and approved by these experts. As Dr Ludington-Hoe wrote in her book, this has got nothing about inheriting clever genes from the parents. This are researched, tested and approved methods!

Athough, should you still believe in the gene pool bit,
my girl got it from her momma!hehehhhehe