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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes- my daughter started reading a few months before we started kindergarten.  They worked on that stuff in her preschool.

She's at the top of her class right now. The kids are all at various levels.  Our school puts a very big emphasis on reading.[/quote]

Parent like you give me heartburn. No one cares she is at the top of her grade.[/quote]

Actually, I do care.  I want to encourage early reading so that my DC can experience being at the top of his class and want to work to stay there.  Academics are important to me and to DH.  [/quote]

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Take it from someone who learned to read at 3: being at the "top" of your class because you are an early reader is often a breeding ground for poor work habits and trouble with challenges later on in school. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  It's all in how learning is framed as you get older.

Research shows that children who are praised for being "smart" often end up losing motivation and an appetite for risk-taking (which is key to learning) as they get older.  Children who are praised for their "hard work" feel more in control of their performance and outcomes and more motivated to work hard to continue to get good results.

This applies to all kids -- the truly gifted, the average and the below average.  From an early age, it's important to highlight for kids ways in which their hard work caused good results.  If your three year old taught himself to read on his own, look to another area in his life to focus on effort and hard work.  Perhaps it's throwing a ball.  Or being patient.  Or learning to dress himself etc.  There's WAY more to learning and development than just learning to read, of course.

For more on this topic, I highly recommend you Google "Carol Dweck".  She's a professor at Stanford and her work in this area is now quite influential in many arenas.  Her book "Mindset" is accessible and terrific.  There are supplemental elementary units and programs designed to apply her work, including something called "Habits of Mind," which our school is using with nice results.[/quote]

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