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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Wow, interesting thread here. OP, has your child expressed interest in doing KUMON? Did your DH, the math wiz, do KUMON as a child? He must have because KUMON creates math geniuses. Has your child expressed the desire to grow up to be a math wiz? I doubt it. Why not let your child have his/her childhood and stop living through them? I am beginning to feel that the mothers that push their children into child beauty pagents operate in the same philosophical realm as mothers who push educational training on their young children.

As for China being a force for Americans to fear, I believe that China will grow old long before it grows rich. At the end of the day the US creates the software and IP, they just pirate it. This is what skill and drill gets you.[/quote]

For ever young and creative previous poster,

I'm sure you'll delight us with what interests and desires your 3-year-old precious darling has expressed to you?  Can you give the rest of us who  expose our 'robotic' children to what we view as important an example of 'rea'l 3-year-old expressed desires and wants?  It appears 20-30 minutes of "kumon-like" mathematics per day destroys childhood and creativity.  I suspect 20-30 minutes of swimming drills in the pool destroys creativity for synchronized swimming talent?  or 20-30 min of music drills per day is the death knell for a creative musician? Does your child have ADHD?

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Not PP, but I do believe that making a 3-year-old do 20 to 30 minutes a day of swimming drills would destroy a love of swimming, and 20 to 30 minutes of music drills per day at that age would destroy a love of music (been there, done that and it was a disaster.  When we stepped back and stopped forcing the music, my DC really blossomed as a musician).  They may not become robotic but children at this age should not be deprived of the value of exploration and discovery and feeding their activities to them like this does have a cost.  if you're doing one thing, you're not doing another.  I'm so glad I did not grow up when sports were so parent-driven.  I discovered sports on my own and became a very successful high school athlete, and am still an athlete, and I fear kids who are being groomed at such ages miss out on the real joy of finding a sport and engaging in it for sheer pleasure.

But I digress.

I won't touch the ADHD comment because I'm not sure I understand what you mean by it and I'm going to pretend you aren't slurring children who do have ADHD.[/quote]

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