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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is crazy. So developmentally inappropriate for 3yos. [/quote]

Can someone explain how learning letters is so crazy and developmentally inappropriate? My 20-month-old has been, of her own motivation, asking me what the names of each letter on her letter puzzle are for weeks. She certainly knows all the letters, and she's no special snowflake genius (plenty of our toddler friends are doing the same). Therefore, I don't see it odd that a preschool or daycare would teach children this, and think they should learn it, by the end of age 3? What am I missing?[/quote]

It's not that learning letters is developmentally inappropriate for some kids -- it's that some other kids just aren't ready, and expecting [b]all[/b] kids to know the letters (and, as often happens, implementing repetitive and boring instruction around letter recognition) by age 4 is not appropriate. Kids develop at different paces, and they develop unevenly. My own kid did know all the letters when he entered preK, but OTOH, there were many other skills that the other kids had mastered that he couldn't do. Couldn't draw anything. Couldn't write his name until closer to 5, not great at some of the self-care things that came more easily to his peers.

So if your kid is interested in letters and asking about them, and if it's kid-directed rather than a parent pushing this stuff (and getting frustrated if the kid doesn't get it!), then it's fine, IMO.[/quote]

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