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What is wrong with reading? I am sure OP does not have her sweet grandchild chained to a chair with books shoved down his throat. He probably lives for cuddles on grandma’s lap reading a book.
Of course she has described a life in which a little bit of playgroup and park time could be added, but “if they start using their brain so early”? God forbid they become programmers or scientists or professors or something.
I know many people who learned to read between 3 and 5. Most of them turned out great.
I think there may be some presumption that children who love reading/being read to have had it forced upon them, and wouldn't choose it of their own volition. Faulty assumption, but there it is.
In the past people waited until the kid was 7 to start teaching them intellectual things as opposed to letting them learn by themselves from the family environment. Maybe they thought the brain is developed enough at that age to start learning from books.
Do you think it's false?
It doesn't matter if a crazy guy told it to me, if I dreamed it some day, or if a renounced university professor said it. None have add any validity to whether is truth or not.
I am just saying that it could have a negative effect later on in life (after 50). Unless a study has been done to prove the opposite it's what I believe.
I think there may be some presumption that children who love reading/being read to have had it forced upon them, and wouldn't choose it of their own volition. Faulty assumption, but there it is.
And it makes me wonder if it's rooted in anti-intellectualism. "Go have him skip rocks, climb trees and play in dirt like a real kid, like I did 50 years ago."
That assumes the kid has a desire to skip rocks, climb trees and play in dirt as opposed to being read to or reading. What if the kid in question actually likes reading? There's nothing wrong with outdoorsy activities, but kids shouldn't be made or expected to "climb trees, skip rocks, etc."/ if that's not their thing. My older two kids are introverts that spend hours devouring books of all kinds, drawing, writing, etc. Sure, they'll go outside if the weather is nice, and my soon-to-be 11 year old will collect rocks or things that look cool to her, but they're not terribly outdoorsy, and they don't need to be, either. My son likes to read as well, but is extroverted and likes being outside at times.
Do you think it's false?
It doesn't matter if a crazy guy told it to me, if I dreamed it some day, or if a renounced university professor said it. None have add any validity to whether is truth or not.
I am just saying that it could have a negative effect later on in life (after 50). Unless a study has been done to prove the opposite it's what I believe.
It makes zero sense to start a three year old in kindergarten.
I learned to read at three, self taught by no program, learned to speed read in third grade and can read and comprehend a three hundred page book in less than two hours. I also have an eidetic memory.
I flunked out of high school and three and a half years later graduated from a four year university with a bachelors degree.
Early reading is no indicator of anything.
Exactly.
Any good teacher will not accept a 3 year old into kindergarten,or shouldn't.
While you shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet, I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that a self-selected group of people who care to go to a web forum to discuss educational topics would, on average, be quite intelligent. Let's be honest: Dullards are not, as a general rule, going to want to type up diatribes on their thoughts about brain development or the education system. There are likely some exceptions, but those wouldn't be the rule.
Many scientific discoveries were made in altered mental state, from drugs, or from dreams. It is very likely a university professor make untrue statements, most people don't see it since authority is the main way of "deciding" if some is truth [a fallacy in itself]. And it is very unlikely that a crazy person say something that is truth, but not impossible specially because nobody even pay any attention.
What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter where the info comes from, it needs to be judged by itself.
I was talking about that in the past there was no kindergarten and people went to 1st grade for the first time at the age of 7 for the most part. Isn't that common knowledge? or I'm talking non sense?
You entire post #83 and #89,you can not provide a link or a fact to back up one single thing you said.
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