It’s been about two weeks since I first started using my own tailor-made flash cards on my son so I thought it was about time I wrote an update on how it was going.  Gavin is still showing a lot of interest in his flash cards — especially the ones with Thomas and trains featuring [...]

After making the first series of flash cards for Gavin to teach him the alphabet, I decided to add on and modify a few of those slides to see if I could teach him a few words that weren’t related to trains.  Since Gavin only seems to be interested in trains these days, I thought I [...]

After letters and numbers, the next subject surely must be colours, so here are the flash cards I made for Gavin on colours: Even if I didn’t really see much value in Thomas from an educational standpoint beyond the teaching of values in some of the stories they showed in the series, I’ve realised that [...]

The idea for this came up when I wanted to make a “sticker chart” for Gavin (something akin to those “reward star charts” parents read so much about in discipline books) so he would have a place to stick all the stickers he earned as rewards. The original plan was for him to stick his [...]