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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
At the risk of being criticized for apparently telling you how to raise your kid, what is the point of getting them to read early?
I guess I just don't see why one would push that on their children at such an early age. Is it not true that most kids do learn to read as long as they attend school? Even kids that have slower development - speech, reading, etc, all eventually learn those skills (unless there is an inherent learning disability).
Maybe you wanna put yer kid on America's Funniest Home Video's reading Roots at 10 months. It is worth 10K.
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See, I think that's where you go offside, questioning a parent's motivation for wanting their child to do something at a particular age. I want my sons to read as early as possible, because they are able to absorb a lot more of the world around them in school and from books without having to struggle with the mechanics of reading. My eldest is never going to be an athletic star, but we have him in gymnastics as well to build up his physical skills. He has taken piano since he was 4, not because we are trying to force him to be some supreme renaissance intellect, but because it gives him options later on, and he enjoys it.
I'm sure some might see this as us pushing him, but in actual fact, he nagged us for six months before we let him take piano, we thought he might be too young. He is just starting gymnastics, but he's been nagging us about that for most of this year as well. As I said before, for me it's a quesiton of the child's readiness and the parent's commitment to spending the time necessary.