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I was a PP earlier about changing your schedules. I also realized you said this, OP: Your child "does some homework sheet(which we force her to)" and you also referred to her forgetting letters and her reading "level."

OP, I am all about getting kids used to learning and giving them structure that includes some actual learning in their days, BUT I am concerned that you and your DH are expecting far too much academic stuff from a four-year-old. When you're not working remotely, is her day care one that pushes things like worksheets for children her age? I hope you can rethink your concern about and emphasis on her being "forced" to do worksheets at this stressful time when she's already frustrated and acting out. Please understand, if you are 'forcing" her to do anything like that now, when she gets to kindergarten she might just decide she hates worksheets or school and might resist and you are setting a stage now for a bigger problem later on.

Four is too young for worksheets and learning needs to be more like playing--which means you and DH really, really do need to change your schedules to interact with her much more through the day. Worksheets can't take the place of sitting down to color with her so you can see if she holds crayons and markers appropriately (the first step toward writing); reading with her and having her point out things in the pictures or point out words she doesn't know; playing with her in the tub with sponge letters or helping her make words on the fridge with magnet letters like one PP mentioned; haviing her measure out ingredients into measuring cups to "help" with cooking, etc. I  am not saying you have to drop everything to turn yourselves into a day care for her all day long. but the emphasis in your post on what sounds like academic expectations for a four year old sound like too much. And I say that as a parent whose kid was reading pretty well at four years old. [/quote]

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