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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you do realize it is very common in this area for kids that age to read, write and do basic math.  Mine is 4.5 and has been reading for at least a year (can give him a new book or word and he read it), addition and subtraction and other stuff.  To me, it is more about exposure than gifted at this age.  We work on it.[/quote]
Yes, I was surprised to hear how competitive people on the east coast are. I come from a rural area in another country and kids went to the local school and did rural kid stuff, not so much focus on "prestige", I guess.[/quote]

People are very competitive but it is also parenting.  Parents should be working with their kids at home to prepare them for school.  My kid learned to read on his own.  It shocked us as it came so easy to him.  We worked with him but not to the level where he could read new things so easily.  You sound far more competitive than anyone I know.  I would never come out and say it as you get strange looks and no one believes you when you say that but they are also the parents who expect the teachers/schools to do all the teaching, [b]only want play based in preschool and everything should be about fun[/b].[/quote]

Play-based preschool is the best kind of preschool for a child's developing brain, all the experts agree. You all sound unhinged. [/quote]

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