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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are seeing quite a bit of money to send our kid to a Reggio Emilia program because I really believe it's the best place for her it's very nurturing loving place and it's very play-based.

I had a neighbor who was a preschool evaluator tell me that a lot of times the obsession with academics is because it's something that it's easy to show off to other parents or family members that your kid can say count to 50 or know all their letters but in reality a lot of that stuff  memorizization versus actual learning in context. When you force kids to do a lot of academic work in preschool they just get burned out doing the same things each year before it's actually meaningful to them.

My 2 year old daughter is already starting to memorize letters based on just playing with letter magnets in the refrigerator when I'm cleaning up in the kitchen it doesn't mean she actually really understands letter sounds or is ready to read. I would rather send her to a place where she can learn grow and explore and then we can worry about kindergarten Readiness when she's getting ready to actually be in kindergarten[/quote]

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