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[quote=Anonymous]There is a real divide among parents on this kind of educational approach and no amount of pedagogical research will convince anyone to switch. FWIW, some of us would never consider Kumon or other Asian cram classes because we feel it would suck the joy out of learning for our kids. Growing up, there was nothing I hated more than rote memorization and flashcards. I wanted to understand the how and why of things, not just the what.  And I wouldn't want to deprive my DD of the things I loved as a kid or subject her to the things I hated.

My DD started reading at 3 because we read to her a lot and she saw us reading a lot.  She learned her addition facts in kindergarten because we showed her how to use her fingers and toes, not because we gave her worksheets. And, she "discovered" the multiplication tables in first grade when she wanted to figure out how much her weekly allowance totaled over time. For me all of this was pretty organic and natural and wholly unpressured. You don't have to drill a kid on gravity facts because they learned that things fall to the ground before they crawled. Making them memorize that gravitation acceleration is 9.8 m/sec^2 in elementary school isn't going to make them a better physicist 20 years later but teaching them how to experiment will. It's been relatively easy to know when she's developmentally ready because she starts asking to know and understand more. And when she was ready, it never took long or much effort. Besides math and language facts, there are an awful lot of things kids need to learn - how to work with others, becoming empathetic, influencing others, losing well, overcoming mistakes etc. - that are more important to becoming succesful. Give some time to think about how to help with that.
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