Feb 23, 2005 / 22:00 pm
It’s teaching three-year olds to pray the rosary. Two-year olds are surprising their parents by reciting the sign of the cross in Spanish. Parents nationwide are singing the praises of a new tool for teaching prayer to the very young.
Holy Baby! Seven Prayers in Seven Languages is a DVD created by Boulder, Colorado couple Wayne and Dede Laugesen, two journalists and parents who have decided to devote their time to producing what prominent Catholic author Jeff Cavins calls “a marvelous tool for families.”
Using colors, toys, bright lights and music, host Baby Scholastica, an animated baby dressed as a nun teaches her young viewers to pray the seven prayers of the rosary, each time in seven different languages - English, Spanish, French, Latin, Vietnamese, German and Portuguese.
The use of different languages, said Dede Laugesen, is to “enhance language development as well as to emphasize the universality of Catholicism.”