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[quote=Anonymous]My child was not a big fan of doing math worksheets at home (we did the ones that have a mystery picture to color after you answer the math). She is liking Kumon so far (we are only a couple weeks into it).  She is also learning to be more careful and not skip questions or only finish them halfway.  She knows that she wants to get 100% on the Kumon.  With the worksheets she didn't care so much and actually felt more defeated (not that she was doing so terribly, just that she gets angry with herself for getting things wrong and then would tell me "I'm NOT GOOD AT MATH." (that was before Kumon).

I could not let my child label herself as a math failure at the age of 7.  So, that's when I looked into Kumon.  She is just doing the easy stuff now and I tell her she is working on becoming a math whiz!  She likes that it's a program that Mom didn't just make up for her to have more work.  Also, as I mentioned she is starting to look through her worksheets and look for missed problems before she turns it in to me to correct.  This is a good step.  Plus, she really does need the repetition.  What seems so easy for us to remember can be really hard for a child to internalize even after many repetitions in the same worksheet assignment.  But, I think the repetition will help in the long run.  I want her to feel successful when she opens her math book at school.  I want her to think of herself as good at math.

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