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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. [/b]We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

[b]Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this.[/b] The teacher should say something if there is an issue.[/quote]

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.[/quote]

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.[/quote]

Wait, you don't have the training or patience to teach your daughter to read?

What kind of training do you imagine is involved in sitting with a toddler and reading a favorite book together? Which is how kids learn to read.[/quote]

We read lots of books, which is why she wants to be able to read them on her own. And the ones she wants to read aren't simple picture books, with one word per page. Being exposed to reading isn't going to automatically teach you how to read, it will just help reinforce what they're learning. I've never heard that just reading books to children will make them learn to read?  And no, I do not have the patience to do it.  I've been 'gifted' since I was little. I have a hard time teaching people things, because they just automatically happen in my brain, if that makes any sense. I don't have a process to explain how to get from A-Z, because I just get right to Z. I have the same issue with my oldest when he's doing math. I can look at a problem and just know the answer, but it's hard for me to break down how I actually got there, which is the most important part of learning things at a young age. I have no problems admitting that, and letting professionals trained in teaching kids to teach my kids, and reinforcing what they've learned at home.[/quote]

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