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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is probably totally average, which I am absolutely fine with. But at this age, I notice that the supposedly "exceptionally bright" kids have parents who ride their ASS in order to get them to achieve some arbitrary goal that does little to benefit the kid, but is ensured to make others look at the mom and go, "Wow, her kid can do THAT!?" I know way too many SAHMs who send their kid to preschool 2-3x a week, then drill their kids when they're at home on writing their name (3 year olds!), drawing, cutting, learning "negative space" on a page, all kinds of stuff like that. I am not willing to do this to my 3 year old.

A girl I know recently told me she made her 3.5 year old daughter sit down and write her name out on 10 teacher cards. The daughter cried because she hates doing it and the mom still made her. Excuse me, WHY does a 3.5 year old need to know how to write their name out 10x? They don't. It's purely for the mom's ego. If a kid shows a natural interest in numbers, then sure, stroke that. But to sit down and make your 3 year old do worksheets and match letters so you can tell everyone "My 3 year old can match upper and lowercase letters!"? Dumb. DUMB.

My 3 year old is going to be a kid as long as she can. Next year she will be in kindergarten and that's it- school for the next 15 years. Let her do all that crap THEN. No kid is going to get to second grade and not know how to write their name, so why do I care if she can do it at 3 vs 5? It almost all evens out in the end and they end up right around each other in terms of intelligence and capability. I am not going to drive my child to tears practicing skills she does not need to know at 3.5 just to satisfy some strange need to be seen as the parent of an "exceptional child."[/quote]

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