Do you use flashcards or workbooks with your young child(ren)?

Yes, I do. For my son, I introduced the Sesame Street Alphabet flashcards when he was a few months away before he turn a year old. He simply loved it. And those cards helped a lot because now that he's in preschool, singing or reciting the aplhabet is just a breeze for him. We also went through Shapes and Color Flashcards. He even has Action flashcards. It shows what walking, running, jumping, etc looks like. He likes these flashcards, too. Because not only do I just show it to him, he imitates whatever action is being shown. He also have several workbooks and coloring books. A few months ago, he was into very large coloring books. He loved to color the characters of Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Diego the Explorer. But now that he's almost 6 years old, he likes to draw anything he can think of. The object he particularly likes is a tricycle. One of the main transportations being used here in our country, the Philippines. I have included a photo of one of his drawings and what a tricycle looks like.

i used to use flash cards, not that it helped much at times. my son has a speech problem, so that made using them harder, but he's improved heaps in his reading and doing sight words. currently having trouble on getting him to do homework, his father isn't helping in that area. just making things worse.

That's how I grew up using flashcards and work books. However, the general shift now is that workbooks and coloring books and flashcards really aren't useful in teaching young children anything. Many educational companies are making a huge profit from them of course, but they're really not developmentally appropriate.

i have used flash cards for math and for telling time and they have been somewhat helpful. i find that thoroughly explaining things works better and showing someone how to do something. once they have the basic knowledge them the flashcards can help to commit things to memory but they are merely a tool in the learning process.

Yes. We still use them. Their school also has a website with links to learning material that the parents can use. I still have some of their old books from the grades before and will review with them just so they don't forget or we play school and give them one of the work sheets to do as practice.

Hi sweetgirl, when my son was just a baby I made hundreds of flash cards by glueing pictures from travel brochures and other things on to pieces of card, and writing the word underneath. When he began to talk he could recognise all sorts of things from a picture of Einstein to the Statue of Liberty. He used to love them but was never interested in colouring books.

I used both with all of my children. I found it helped them when they started school and even after. It can not only help with basics but I also had flashcards with words on them and it helped them learn to read. There are all kinds of free pages and cards you can print out from the net that are really good also.

Flashcards and worksheets are a big thing at my house, not only have I taught all my children with them but I also teach English at home. I love flashcards. The younger kids that I teach really remember things so quickly with the cards. Also because I am raising my kids in a non English speaking country I havefound that using cards with the basic sight words has really helped my kids to read. With those cards I have mde different games, after playing the games the kids have to copy the words into a notebook, at 1st grade about 10 a day. Doing this consistenly has really helped. I use flashcards for myself as well. I want to be able to read a few of the Japanese kanji (Chinese characters) and have found the best way to memorise is to use flashcards!