Do your kids have tutors?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a tutor for my 5 year old to prepare him for k next year and make sure he does not fall behind. Sounds crazy, I know… but he likes it and we are not paying for super expensive tutors. It’s like an activity he does (learning letters and numbers) at home while I finish working.

My older kids never had a tutor (4th and 2nd grade) and are doing very well in private.

Most 5 year olds learn from their parents because we all have the ability to work with a five year old. You don’t have time?

My child when younger loved to play educational games with me. One game she loved was a game to identify states and their capitals. When they had a test with a blank copy of states in the US and no list they needed to fill in names of capitals and states. She did it in ten minutes and got them all correct. That wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t play that game 100 times. We now play games about countries around the world which we both love.

Same with math. We played numbers games, cards, coloring math games. Reading books.

I think what we did was equal to tutoring at that age but more fun.

My son has a tutor in middle school because of a learning disability. The tutor is able to travel to the school during free time so it all stays in school.

English is my second language and I have never learned phonics. I am 100% unable to teach phonics to my son. Also, I don’t know how to teach numbers either. I can help him memorize them and write them of course, but the abstract concepts are something that teachers are much better than me at. Also, playing games that are fun is important. Finally, my son learns much better from someone that is not his parents.

My older kids don’t need tutor because I am 100% capable in helping them learning the states and capitals or multiplications/divisions and fractions.

The money I spend on tutors for my son are probably the best money I could ever spend!

He’s five. You don’t need to teach him phonics or whatever it is you’re talking about. Unless he has a learning disability he will learn all these basic skills in class with his classmates.

But I want him to start ahead if possible. I want him to feel confident in his academic abilities and start with the right foot.

So far, he has no disabilities and I am sure he would be fine and learn with his classmates, but I want him to be be better than fine especially since he will be one of the youngest kids in his class (March birthday in private school)