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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious--what types of "issues" in school are your children having that caused you to turn to Kumon? Or is literally just an eagerness for your child to "get ahead"? Is Kumon assisting with reading skills or just math? These are sincere questions--not snark. Thanks.[/quote]

Three months ago I enrolled my son who just turned 5 after attending a parent meeting at his daycare/preschool. I love his play-based preschool that provides loads of outside time. I asked his teacher if he was not interested in coloring or picking up a pencil this year if they would make him write or color anything. His teacher said she would only encourage him as all writing tasks would be optional. I don't want to switch him from his preschool so I thought Kumon would be a good balance. We read tons of books, play math games at home (chutes and ladders, card games like war, go fish, etc.) but his fine motor skills are terrible. I bought the Kumon workbooks and tried to do some of them, but I wanted something more structured. He has learned how to separate and go and sit with a teacher he doesn't know to work (Jr. Kumon students are seated with specific teacher apart from the other students). He has learned to focus and complete written work for 15 minutes once a day, every day. The elementary school we are going to send him to uses Everyday Math so we were planning on enrolling him eventually in Kumon, but decided he would benefit from starting early.  We just signed him up for math, and he has learned a lot (he can now count and read numbers to 100 and write numbers to 50,  but I see where he has really improved is in his fine motor skills and his ability to focus. [/quote]

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