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[quote=Anonymous][quote][b]I don't think "prepping" is the issue. I think it's how you do it and the impact it has on your kid. [/b]

W[b]e don't do workbooks[/b], but we do prep quite a bit. We play a ton of games, sing a lot of songs and read for meaning - while covering the same items in a workbook.

Yesterday, [b]I handed my child her play shopping card [/b]and asked her to fill the cart with items that start with the letter "s". I was surprised at how many items she found - one's I hadn't even considered. Her cart was overflowing, I had moved on to something else, and she was still searching for "S" items.

Then we played a game where I started to write a letter on her blackboard and she had to guess what letter it was before I finished. Then she did the same and I guessed the letter.

I also encourage her to draw and "write" (letter to Grandma, picture of what she did that day, etc). She "signs" (writes) her name on her artwork and writes alphabet letters in her letter to Grandma.

So, we cover the same things as a workbook just in a different way. My daughter loves it and begs for another "game" (lesson).[/quote]

Baloney.  Children have different skill sets and strengths.  The manner in which we learn and interrogate and interact with the outside world is highly variable...as is our individual senses.  Some of us are more visual, audio centric, tactile, and verbal than others.  Some of us are literally blind, deaf, or dumb. While workbooks work for some, shopping carts may work for others, online computing for others, and audio lessons for yet others.  Some use a combination of a variety of methods to optimize learning.  The key is to learn with approaches that work best with you.

Why should you worry about the learning style or methods of others if your approach is working for your own child?  Workbooks (however you define this reading material) have worked effectively for many?  I suspect with the digital age kids will even be using their computers as eWorkbooks for learning exercises and simulation for learning purposes!

Don't be too rigid.  The plastic brain isn't...only the adult skull.

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