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Anonymous
....I wouldn't consider buying an educational book for your kid prepping for the WPSSI test if you're trying to entertain your kid in an educational way. I like your surgical dissection of motive here. If the educational book is for entertaining then it's fair game; but if it's for education then it's prepping! How about educating your kid in an entertaining way.... or educationing your kid in an educational way ... of entertaining your kid in an entertaining way? Please contrast educate from entertain in a 3 to 4 year-old? Sounds like typical dcummie slimy slang. PS: The vast collection of educational books and wookbooks in the family library trove are pure entertainment for my children. We spend many snowy days by the hearth entertaining ourselves for hours on end...including the 4 year-old. When he takes the WPSSI one day thanks for allowing us to say he was not prepped. I like your argument. Let's mail in the rules of your game to all the admission directors, psychologists and educational consultants ... and lest I forget the Judges. |
Anonymous
From this logic, I anticipate that if the child refused to go to school the poster would not push school on the child either. |
Anonymous
| sometimes I think every WPPSI debate on this board should be replaced with the sound of Charlie Brown's teacher. |
Anonymous
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Of for god's sake. I'm the 16:18 poster that everyone is in a tizzy about. DH is a SAHD and has been playing with learning with DD since she was very little when we lived out of the area and had never even considered private. We have all sorts of learning books and workbooks and have had for a number of years. I'd never even heard of the WPPSI until last fall when we decided to apply her to PK.
My point was, if your child likes learning, go for it. Don't not buy educational books because people on here might make you feel like you're cheating for something. That's idiotic. If your child doesn't seem to enjoy that type of game/book/whatever, then don't push it. Let him/her wait until school starts and they're required to focus on academics. DD likes the educational books. If DS doesn't then that won't be what he plays with. Plans for future WPPSI taking or not. Why is everyone on here so snarky and mean? |
Anonymous
| Oh, and before everyone jumps on me for my "number of years comments" ... with a 3 year old and a 10 month old, a month feels like a year. |
Anonymous
| I have heard about IQ tests and I have heard about the WPSSI test. My 16-month old child will definetely take the WPSSI in future if it is still required for private school admission. Is it ok to entertain her with wookbooks and educational materials, as long as we are not pushing this on her, in the meantime or should I wait until she is in school? |
Anonymous
| Don't bother with workbooks. Read, read, read to her. Fun stuff. My kids loved "lift the flap" books at that age. Get puzzles and simple games (when she's older). Above all, talk to her. Constantly. Narrate the world to her. That is much more important than workbooks. |
Anonymous
| I do these things already and will continue to do so. But, I would like to introduce my child to different forms of stimualtion and presentations including workbooks and computer software. She seems entertained by the different approaches to learning and education (tactile and audio-visual). |
Anonymous
| Please explain to me -if you think your child is gifted/advanced then why do parents feel the need to "prepare" their children for these tests? I am not asking to be critical -I just don't understand it.... |
Anonymous
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Do Educational Consultants really do WPSII prep? How is that ethical if they are then administering the test, albeit to different "clients?"
Do people actually pay ECs to prep their kids for WPSII? Excuse my naivete. If so, it completely explains the number of 99 percentiles self-reported on this listserv. |
Anonymous
I do not consider my child gifted and I do not consider entertaining my child with workbooks and lots of reading and lots of games and lots of puzzles as prepping for WPSSI. I have heard of IQ tests including the WPSSI. I do know my child will take this as a requirement for admission to private school but I still want to entertain my child with eductional things. Is this wrong, and should I wait till she is in school. |
Anonymous
| It is not wrong! Stimulate your child. If your child likes learning, feed that desire! What is wrong is pushing a child to do something he or she doesn't want to do. What is wrong is paying someone to train your child to enhance his/her performance on a specific test. What is wrong is tracking down a version of a test to practice with. It is **not** wrong to stimulate an intellectually curious child. |
Anonymous
| I am glad you agree. I'm sure you are a fine mother and provided educational and intellectual entertainment for your children too. |