Video example of Headsprout -> Blending.

I've mentioned HeadSprout before, because I think it works (for boys and girls), but I wanted to demonstrate a three year old learning how to blend. WITHOUT PAIN. The goal of this blog is the painless-for-the-parents part of the technique. Boys are hard enough to raise without having to be turned against your own kids by your teachers and society in general.

Anyways. Watch this video, then tell me that's not easier than sitting with them being frustrated because they're looking into space thinking about Minecraft.

People like to think that the major benefit of computer aided learning is that "Kids like being on computers more than they like teachers" but it's not. There's been some real science that's gone into teaching kids, and the phonics we learned is not the modern phonics teachings.

Above, you see he is learning "fl" and "ee" as phenomes. He does not know "e" as a single character yet. Just one example.