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This is the best reason I have read anywhere on DCUM for a reason to send a kid to academic tutoring (other than for needing extra help).  But it seems like there could be better activities to send them to rather than academic tutoring.  [b]Add'l sports, music, even volunteering?  [/b]

Actually, playing some video games (not violent ones) may help a kids' fine motor skills.  Not saying we should let kids play electronics all day, but that is one side benefit.  I think there was an article some time ago about how they found that surgeons and/or fighter pilots that played more computer games when they were yonger were better at some of the skills that required these types of motor skills.[/quote]

Totally true.  [b]IXL and Khan are cheap/free and don't require parents to drive[/b].  So this is the lazy parent method of occupying idle hands/minds.  They do sports and music.  I wholeheartedly agree that volunteering is a good use of time...just don't always have time to facilitate it (kids cannot drive yet).[/quote]

[b]Are these online tutoring?  OK, I admit, while I don't send my kids to after school tutoring, I do let them play math games and such online.  Does that count as after school tutoring?[/b][/quote]

Yes, this is enrichment. Why do you think your kid needs that? If they were smart and had raw talent they should learn everything they need to "automagically" at school.  I pity your child!  You are the worst kind of a Tiger mom! I bet they do not have a life outside of doing Math game online. Don't you think they should have unstructured time in their life? Their childhood is pitiful.  I bet they have a "dead look" in their eye from all that screen time![/quote]

Well, first of all, math online is about 10 to 15 min.  Secondly, I didn't sign DC up for anything. DC asked to do it. It was this vs. writing math facts on paper.  I let DC do it on the computer. So, DC does still have a lot unstructured time. Sometimes, DC chooses to read for an hour, sometimes DC goes out and plays.  DCs eyes are far from "dead".  They *sparkle*!

I take it you do put your kids in after-school tutoring, hence the sarcastic response(?).[/quote]

Umm, actually my kids do not get after school tutoring but have had enough enrichment at home that they enjoy. From DCUM perspective they must be working hard because they are in magnets, and they participate in several ECs they enjoy, compete in county level and state level championships and win.  But these accomplishments come easy to them. In addition - they also have a huge circle of friends, travel overseas every year, are healthy and thriving mentally and physically, have a great home environment and live in an intact family, have great relationship with relatives and friends!

No, not making sarcastic remarks but rather mimicking the words of many parents who pass value judgments on the parenting style of those who have tutors for their kids.  To be sarcastic to you, I would have to envy you somehow - and I cannot find a reason to do that.[/quote]

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