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Anonymous
| If you have a child applying to K/Prek how did you respond to this question? What aspects of your child did you focus on? |
Anonymous
| answer honestly!!! there will e a letter from preschool, a tester write up, observations from playdate, and your description. There should be a recurring theme! discuss things that are relevant for school! |
Anonymous
| What "aspects" of my 4 year old did I focus on? It isn't a trick question. They want to know about your kid. They can't learn everything about them from a 2 hr group playdate and the teacher rec form. I wrote what my son enjoys (the outdoors, reading, insects, dinosaurs, the pool). I wrote about his personality (very talkative, asks a lot of questions, can be persistent, etc). |
Anonymous
| Not looking for tips. Just curious to see what qualities parents feel sets their kids apart at this age. |
Anonymous
| It isn't about "setting them apart", it is about getting to know the child. |
Anonymous
| There aren't too many things that would set apart one 4 yr old from the next. It isn't unusual for kids around here to read at that age and be very bright so you can't use those as example. It is even too young to be a real prodigy although those children may now start to "show" themselves. |
Anonymous
I find this so surprising because I can think of many things that set my 4-year-old apart from his peers. Do others agree with this statement? |
Anonymous
| to the pp: like what? |
Anonymous
| Yes 23:18 I do agree. I bet if you start to list what you consider unique there will be many on here with kids with similar qualities. While I'd love to think DD unique, she's just almost 4 and her personality is still developing. |
Anonymous
And/or the parent! |
Anonymous
Yes, I'm curious too. Maybe my 4 yr old hangs out w/ boring kids b/c they may have different personalities but nothing about any of them makes me go "Wow!" My friends think it is amazing that my son can read at age 4 b/c their kids are just learning the alphabet but every other kid in the DC can read at age 4. Nothing special. The one thing I can think of that makes me saw "Wow" about a child is if they speak 3+ languages at that age and can switch back and forth among them. I met a child years ago who spoke English, French, Turkish and Italian in kindergarten and was verbally proficient in all of them. Now that was pretty impressive. |
Anonymous
I never suggested that my child can do a bunch of things that make people say "wow"! All I said as that he's not like every other 4-year-old. I was responding to the comment that all 4-year-olds are essentially the same, and I don't believe that. I think my son and his friends are individuals with unique personalities, interests, strengths, etc. So I'm curious, for those who disagree with this, when do they become individuals? Are all 8-year-olds the same? What about at 15? I would be curious as to whether early childhood educators believe that young children are basically indistinguishable. |
Anonymous
| PP this is exactly why i posed the question. Of course every child is unique but I am curious to learn what other parents feel makes their child so different at this age. As someone mentioned, plenty of four year olds are reading and writing. |
Anonymous
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I think at this stage of the game, it's pretty sad that you can't tell people what makes your own child "unique". You're the parent, so you're the one who would know!
And suppose we tell you what makes our own children "unique". I assume you want to take the better ideas and parrot them to schools and pretend that your child has similar qualities. Well, if you have to copy other people's ideas, your child won't sound "unique" anyway--they will have heard it all before. |
Anonymous
I know...I know...just tell the truth.
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