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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think we all agree on what supplementing is. I would define it as Kumon, doing math workbooks or assigning them extra homework every day, having a tutor, etc. I would not include going on educational trips and going to the library.[/quote]

We don't. I supplement by choosing books, poetry, music, etc. to expose my child to.  In a structured way. Like comparing Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" to Langston Hughes's answer: "I, Too, Sing America."  And talking about it.

I supplement by doing Tinker kits together with him. Science stuff. Coding. Keyboarding. Art history.  Music lessons. Good movies, plays, musicals.

And this may be par for the course for most parents here. It wasn't how I grew up. And it isn't how my brother is raising his kids.  He thinks school covers everything an American kid needs to know and the only extracurriculars are sports. what I do is supplementing.  Kumon, to me, would be more like tutoring to improve deficient skill sets.  I have done additional work like IXL to help get my kid up to snuff. But never to push beyond grade level.[/quote]

find, but that's not supplementing. supplementing means enhancing the schoolwork. going to museums is nice, and important, has is not supplementing.[/quote]

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