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I wish I was a good enough teacher to do it myself, but I don't know if I am.  And I struggle with patience with my very determined but willful daughter.  Also my time and energy is limited. My husband mentioned one of his colleagues suggested Kumon, and we have a center nearby, so I thought I'd find more information about it here.  [b]I didn't expect to get such backlash for it[/b]![/quote]

The general belief on DCUM is:

1. No child less than kindergarten age is ready to learn to read (and many children of kindergarten age are also not ready to learn to read).
2. If a child less than kindergarten age were ready to learn to read, that child would teach itself.
3. The only reason anybody would want to teach a child of less than kindergarten age to learn to read is to brag and hothouse.

So yes, backlash.

Seriously, take a look at Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. It's funny-looking, and not all of the 100 lessons are easy, but you can break it up into very small bits, and the lessons are scripted, so if you don't trust your teaching skills, you can just follow the script. (My personal recommendation for a child who is not yet 4 is to skip the parts about writing letters, if that part is a struggle.)[/quote]

Thanks, I will look into the Teach Your Child To Read lessons and see if it's something we could do![/quote]

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