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[quote=Anonymous]I am not sure what you mean by negative outcome. I signed up my son one year before he started kindergarten. He attended a play based all day preschool. It was a good compliment to his preschool. He learned how to sit and concentrate for 10 to 15 minutes. His fine motor control improved significantly. When he started he could only write the numbers 1 and 7.  After 9 months he could write numbers  quickly and effortlessly and started to learned basic addition (4+8). I took him out the summer befor kinder because I wanted him to understand math concepts. He had.no strategy to solve a problem like 4+8 except for brute memorization.   It really did prepare him for kinder. He is able to finish his written work quickly without struggling. I am not sure just 2 or 3 months is enough. When I pulled him out of Kumon I taught him with first grade Singapore Math. He now has strategies to solve math problems and understands place value, etc. ( ex. 4+ 8, so 8 needs 2 more to make 10, 4-2= 2, 10+2= 12 so 4+8 = 12 or he can now mentally add 40+19). Now a year later I am going to put him back in Kumon to get his addition and subtraction facts down cold.[/quote]

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