Enrichment for young, bright kids.

[Anonymous]

Work on teaching them patience. Delayed gratification. Perseverance. Organization. Observation. Multi-step directions. Sharing. Empathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work on teaching them patience. Delayed gratification. Perseverance. Organization. Observation. Multi-step directions. Sharing. Empathy.

+1. And leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Work on teaching them patience. Delayed gratification. Perseverance. Organization. Observation. Multi-step directions. Sharing. Empathy.

+1. And leadership.

Omg all white kids want to be “leaders”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Work on teaching them patience. Delayed gratification. Perseverance. Organization. Observation. Multi-step directions. Sharing. Empathy.

+1. And leadership.

Omg all white kids want to be “leaders”

Huh? First, so? And second, my kids are Brown.

[Anonymous]

Real conversation, OP. Engage your kids in real conversations talking about things that happened in your day and how they would have handled the situation. Talk about when you were a kids and your triumphs and hurts. Talk about bees and how your child can help save them. Anything that’s real and engages your three year old. A recent study I read said that true conversation was the most beneficial to a developing mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Work on teaching them patience. Delayed gratification. Perseverance. Organization. Observation. Multi-step directions. Sharing. Empathy.

+1. And leadership.

Omg all white kids want to be “leaders”

My Black kid wants to be a leader.

[Anonymous]

Thirty years from now these kids will be on a DCUM-like forum complaining about their overbearing mother, and deservedly so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work on teaching them patience. Delayed gratification. Perseverance. Organization. Observation. Multi-step directions. Sharing. Empathy.

These are good ones. I admit I deliberately take my time on getting things for my preschooler so she will learn patience and delayed gratification!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thirty years from now these kids will be on a DCUM-like forum complaining about their overbearing mother, and deservedly so.

I don’t think so at all. Just parents wanting to do right by their kids.

Stop being so ugly, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 yr old and 21 month old seem very bright and are very verbal. The 3.5 yr old goes to a good play-based preschool for five hours a day during the week sand I take the 21 month old to a gym class and Music Together class. They both have swim lessons on Saturday.

We read a lot. Spend lots of time outside at the playgrounds and parks. They paint and do water play. My older child knows all his numbers, letters, phonetic sounds, rhymes easily but doesn’t want to learn to read (and I don’t want to push it).

I’m looking for other enrichment things I can do.

For example, someone gave my oldest a Mrs. Wordsmith vocabulary “new word a day” flip book and both kids devoured it. My oldest uses all the new words regularly. We have two art books and both kids can find any artist’s work in the books by the artist’s name. Again, these two books were a gift.

I see things like bells for learning music and the one-third stories that introduce another language on my social media feeds - are they any good?

Anything else I should be doing? Believe me, we have the reading covered - probably two hours at least over the course of the day. We don’t do TV but I’m not opposed.

Thank you!

Oral stories, have them start with filling in an ending, then do a beginning for a middle and ending you give, then work up to filling in the middle for a given beginning and ending.

Oral math stories, ie stories that just happen to have math. Tell a story about a girl going through the forest, seeing and hearing all the different animals, counting the animals, more or less bunnies than snakes, etc.

Number order: Take a pack of index cards and write 0-20 on them. Start with 1-3, tell your 3yo to toss them in the air, then put them in order on the floor in front of you, finally read them in order. It incorporates number recognition, ordering and gross motor movement. 1-3, then 1-5, 1-10, 0-10, 0-15, 0-20.

Counting 1-1: Using the same pack of cards, can they get and hold in their hand as many puff balls or other small items as the number on the card? It works on fine motor control and counting 1-1.

Counting 1-1, comparing: using the same pack of cards and puff balls in two colors, put out two groups and have them count, find the right card. child removes pairs (one of each color) to determine which had more and which had less.

Get lacing cards and shoelaces. Teachers will thank you later, and kids love them.

Sorting: take a mason jar (or old peanut butter jar), several colors of pony beads or puff balls, and toddler tweezers, have them sort colors into the egg cups. Bonus points for counting the cup contencts after and deciding most and least.

These are all preschool level activities I do with 2-4yo who show an interest. You can turn any desired skill into a game.
~Nanny