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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Well, I've never heard it stated this way before... but no, I'm certainly not jealous. Why would I be? I can afford to send my K to whatever tutoring if I wanted, but here's the thing... I don't think it's necessary, and I want my K to be a kid. Since my kids were babies, we would read to them every night. They loved reading, and this helped them learning letters. It was fun for them; we spent time together. Why tutor when you can spend time together at home doing these things with your PreK? If you want your PreK to be used to sitting for a few minutes doing work, why not just get them a preK workbook from any store. It has shapes, coloring, letter tracing. I also printout free coloring pages and math facts online. It's easy, cheap, and flexible. Tutoring sounds like overkill for a preK.

I didn't send my 3rd grader to a tutor, and DC did just fine..got into HGC and compacted math. So, are you now jealous? Geez. why do people always think it must be jealousy if someone disagrees. OP posted here asking for opinions. So you get various opinions, but it ain't jealousy.[/quote]

New poster.  My kids enjoy being kids and that includes kittles and kumon.  We play together and ... gasp, even do kumon together tracing letters and numbers and solving problems.  We are having a blast together and I seriously doubt you have the sole monopoly on having fun with your child.

Face it, if you have traveled the world, and spent time with families with children being together and doing activities together you'd be surprised to learn  these activities may be different than yours (playdates, movies and video games)... but no less mutually bonding and nurturing.

Some kids like painting... some kids like to read... some kids like to solve problems...some kids like to play lacrosse...some kids like to do all of the above and more ...particularly with their families and loved ones at this young age.  The latter relationship is perhaps the most important rather than the particular activity or play date!!!

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