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[quote=Anonymous]Man, I wish my kid would have let me help with his 8th grade science project. That thing sucked.

OP, unless specifically stated by the teacher, I would think most "projects" in preschool will have some level of help from parents. Some parents are just very focused on making sure their child gets it "right" and don't understand that the learning is in the process. Teachers know this and are usually pretty good about giving explicit instructions.

It's fine to encourage your child to do it by herself. Just find a nice way to give her a head's up that some kids are doing it with their parents, and some kids are doing it alone. In 2nd grade both my kids went through this with a musical instrument project. Both times my kids essential showed up with dried beans in a can, while some other kids had handcrafted wooden string instruments, lol. Apparently on presentation day the first question any kid asked was "Did you do it by yourself?", to the point that kids just started incorporating that info in the beginning of their presentation. Everyone was proud, everyone got good scores. It was fine.[/quote]

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