Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From birth. Started with Greenspan’s “First Feelings,” eventually moved on to the Gymboree soft bound play book.

Did baby sign language a la “Arrival,” then started holding her hand to my mouth when I spoke so she could feel vibrations from the sounds I was making.

Constant eye contact, lots of baby-wearing. Read to her ALL THE TIME. Anything and everything including road signs and cereal boxes.

Chose the right preschool, then the “right” public that we had paid a lot of $$$ to live near. Left for private. The only supplementation we do now is heritage language with a private tutor. I wasn’t a fan of the c2- or Kumon-type chains.

YMMV and good luck.

This is also just normal parenting (with enough $$ to afford private).

Anonymous wrote:I think Kumon at age 3 is a little overboard.

I started my son at 4 by accident. When the schools shut down in March 2020 I was just trying to find something online with circle time type stuff to keep him in the preschool routine and for a year he ended up watching a daily stream by a former K teacher that taught letter sounds, counting, some writing. It had a lot of fun things too like songs and dancing so he enjoyed it. That ended eventually but he was so far ahead I just continued. Right after he turned 5, he asked me to teach him to read so we did the "teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons". He's in K now doing 1st grade work. I have 5 Kumon workbooks (addition, subtraction, geometry, reading, writing) and he does one lesson a day (sometimes he wants to do 2) in the book assigned for that day (eg monday- addition, tuesday- writing etc). No more than 20 min a day. I will keep going as long as he is interested.