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You go right on thinking that.  My creative child will be ordering yours to do spreadsheets when she comes up with the next great idea, and yours is used to rote learning.  Last laugh will be with me I think.[/quote]

where do people get this idea that it either has be creativity or worksheets. My DD 5yo is HIGHLY creative (legoes, coloring, finished writing her third story today - all her initiatives BTW) and on the daily basis does 230 Kumon addition problems takes her 10min with 100% accuracy.

(on a silly note) if we are getting into hypothetical pissing contests  :) , I think, my kid will be in a STEM program and will get BS, MS and PhD from MIT while your kid will drop out from a local community and end up working in starbucks [i]creatively[/i] making a grande latte for my kid.

(on a more serious note) can anyone honestly explain to me why is it soo terribly bad for kids to focus for 20 min every night on reading or math. do you think that 20 min (during the 5 h of after school time) of structured concentration will stagnate creatively in a child. it is interesting to see how many people bet all of their "money" only on creativity. Is it really all that is needed to become successful? I don to subscribe to "everyone is stupid but me" philosophy so I am honestly looking for solid justification behind the "creatively is all that matters" approach.   would not you want to "hedge" your bets and put your "money" on several approaches.  [/quote]

I totally agree. I am hedging my bet and my kids went to a play-based daycare until kindergarten. They never did a worksheet or were required to pick up a pencil at daycare. They played all day in a creative way, sang songs, did art projects when they wanted to, came home filthy from building rivers, dams, and rock structures in the mud, climbed trees, etc.   In order to make sure they were ready for kindergarten both my kids did Kumon for 10 to 20 minutes a day the year before they entered K. It ended up being a fantastic balance. Play all day, work one-on-one with parent 5 evenings a week for an average of 15 minutes, Kumon center twice a week. Listen to lots of books at home and at school.  My kids are still in the Kumon Math program. I don't have confidence that public schools will prepare them for a STEM major, if they choose to study on, without supplementing at home. [/quote]

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