teaching your kids .... its a "womens job"?

[jsimpson89]

I just think it varies so much by the child and what their environment is for example that saying they should/shouldn't write by age 6 is difficult. My younger children saw their older sister doing school and they wanted to get started too so they probably actually started working with a pencil at an earlier age than she did... not because they were pushed or were more advanced but because they wanted to...

[brokencrayola]

Teaching the boy is no ones "job". Teaching children during the preschool years usually falls upon the mom if she is a stay at home mom. If not I think both parents should be helping. It is nice for dads to read their children bedtime stories at night to bond and it will help them learn to read themselves later.

[Jerseyt719]

I hate the gender roles. It's fine if mom is a stay at home mom. Then she does have her job.

But when mom also works a full time job just like dad, is she not taking on the dad's role as well?

I love to hear how men say but I have to mow the lawn and do the car maintenance. Well mowing the lawn is once a week tops and car maintenance is once every three months.
It would be great if the woman could just cook and clean up from dinner once a week or vacuum, dust, clean bathrooms, and sweep and mop floors plus do laundry and grocery shopping every three months. The workload isn't even close to even and that's not even with kids in the equation.

If people want to go back to typical gender roles then in that particular family, that wife shouldn't have a full time job outside the house.

[SusieOwens]

Originally Posted by malamute

Yes, he's only 4.

Everything at that age should only be free play and fun when it comes to learning. All kids should have crayons and books and lots of paper, they should be left alone to explore and discover -- all kids will love crayons but forcing learning at that young of age does not work well.

Parents of course should read lots and lots of books to their kids, new books and the same books over and over.

The amazing thing about the pre-school years is the natural curiousity and love of learning that kids have -- until school makes them think it's not fun to learn.

I agree with this completely. It's just sad to see a child that loved learning new things change to where learning isn't fun anymore. We've got to remember that it's a long road of learning for children and to make learning a chore early in their life is the wrong approach.

Let them have fun while they're young and, hopefully, that love of learning and natural curiosity will carry over into their teens and adulthood.

[monumentus]

Originally Posted by jjang

i find this unfair i think teaching kids should be a fun thing they can do with their parents (both) and should necessarily be a "moms job "

You answered your own question and ended the thread for me right there to be honest.

Aside from the clear biological requirement of birth - and perhaps breast feeding if that is the choice you make - I do not think there is a _single aspect of child rearing_ that should be the role of - or precluded from - either sex.