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I don't know statistically, but I think kids (people) are more likely to enjoy things they feel good about. My husband (very smart, advanced degrees) still complains that he reads very slowly and he doesn't like it. Luckily he's dedicated enough to just do what he needs to do, but it isn't enjoyable and never something he'd do for pleasure. I was an early reader and I've always just loved reading. The more you do it, the better you are it, and I think it is the reason that I've always been good at standardized testing. [b]So far my son seems perfectly average but he thinks he's bad at it and resists it.[/b] [/quote]

No.  Doesn't work that way.  And, a child who naturally learns to read early-and there are those who do--is far different from one who is trained to read early. 
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Yeah, I'm just not sure I'm buying that.  Here, you will read:  Oh, it doesn't matter where they start; they all catch up in time.  Except...they don't.  At least plenty of them don't.[/quote]

I'm sorry to hear that.  I think acceleration causes it.

I wasn't an early reader at all; thank god it wasn't an expectation of my parents or school.  I never knew I was supposed to be already reading and that therefore I was a bad/slow reader. That year or two of early reading wasn't going to make me love it more or better at it.  I picked it up in 1st grade when I was ready and quickly came to LOVE reading. Was in the jr. great books program in 3trd grade and winning poetry contests.  Majored in English in college.  DH could read at age three.  He was pretty into reading till jr. high then didn't read a single book till his late twenties (bullshitted through highschool and joined the military).  He likes to read now - but thinks of it mostly as information transfer, even fiction.  Words don't touch him or move him.  Early reading didn't make him love books.[/quote]

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