Anonymous wrote:Museums, Nature Centers, Zoos, Aquariums, sports games -double and triple AAA baseball, hikes all over, finding new playgrounds, listening to books in the car, library visits 1-2 times a week, sand/rice play, building blocks, duplos, cooking/baking, painting, growing a garden, clay, Lite Brite for the older one, coloring…………

Many museums and nature centers have packages of things to do by age group.

+1. And art museums and concerts. Many orchestras have free practices open to young kids.

Museums, Nature Centers, Zoos, Aquariums, sports games -double and triple AAA baseball, hikes all over, finding new playgrounds, listening to books in the car, library visits 1-2 times a week, sand/rice play, building blocks, duplos, cooking/baking, painting, growing a garden, clay, Lite Brite for the older one, coloring…………

Many museums and nature centers have packages of things to do by age group.

Anonymous wrote:YOu're good.Please do not teach your 3 year old too read. It's not necessary.

Nonsense. Teach him to read IF he wants to learn. But it doesn’t sound like he’s ready so fun ways to keep the alphabet and phonetic sounds fresh in his mind is great.

I’ve been looking at those one third books too! Let me know if you like them!

YOu're good.Please do not teach your 3 year old too read. It's not necessary.

Anonymous wrote:I know they’re old but both my kids taught themselves to read with the Letter Factor videos. I watched with them and talked about what was taught after the videos were over. Both kids were starting to read by four.

Thank you! I just ordered them! They look sweet!

Anonymous wrote:I had one speech delayed kid and now have a highly verbal 3.5. My highly verbal gets a lot more out of foreign language language exposure than my eldest did, so I’d add that if I were you. And I wouldn’t hesitate to add it with some sort of “screen time.”

Thanks! Any apps or videos you recommend?

I had one speech delayed kid and now have a highly verbal 3.5. My highly verbal gets a lot more out of foreign language language exposure than my eldest did, so I’d add that if I were you. And I wouldn’t hesitate to add it with some sort of “screen time.”

Anything else you should be doing? No.

I know they’re old but both my kids taught themselves to read with the Letter Factor videos. I watched with them and talked about what was taught after the videos were over. Both kids were starting to read by four.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh dear.

+1 LOL.

-1. So judgmental and unnecessary. Typical DCUMs.

Anonymous wrote:Oh dear.

+1 LOL.

Oh dear.

Anonymous wrote:The Bedtime math app has good problems for the 3 year old.

Thank you!! I’ll look into it!

The Bedtime math app has good problems for the 3 year old.

My 3.5 yr old and 21 month old seem very bright and are very verbal. The 3.5 yr old goes to a good play-based preschool for five hours a day during the week sand I take the 21 month old to a gym class and Music Together class. They both have swim lessons on Saturday.

We read a lot. Spend lots of time outside at the playgrounds and parks. They paint and do water play. My older child knows all his numbers, letters, phonetic sounds, rhymes easily but doesn’t want to learn to read (and I don’t want to push it).

I’m looking for other enrichment things I can do.

For example, someone gave my oldest a Mrs. Wordsmith vocabulary “new word a day” flip book and both kids devoured it. My oldest uses all the new words regularly. We have two art books and both kids can find any artist’s work in the books by the artist’s name. Again, these two books were a gift.

I see things like bells for learning music and the one-third stories that introduce another language on my social media feeds - are they any good?

Anything else I should be doing? Believe me, we have the reading covered - probably two hours at least over the course of the day. We don’t do TV but I’m not opposed.

Thank you!