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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never.  Mom of four successful college grads. [/quote]

Things have changed, unfortunately.

Anyway, Kumon for three year olds sounds dumb. The commute alone eats up an awful lot of time you could spend actually engaging with the child.

While I played games like "count the m&ms" and pushed high-level vocabulary classic literature at my toddlers as if I were the neighborhood drug dealer, I don't think I started anything formal with them until the summer before kindergarten. That's when I started teaching them how to read. [/quote]

Not really.  What you described is pretty standard patenting. ..playing counting games, reading books, supporting reading  when the kid seems ready.[/quote]

The "things have changed" is a response to someone who said "never". Nothing has really changed for very young children, but I have a low opinion of the reliability of schools as far as teaching things -- e.g reading, which is a bunch of 3 cuing nonsense in most of the local districts. The huge number of tutoring centers in strip malls isn't for the aesthetics (though I think that generally supplementing is better done at home.)[/quote]

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