I'm not great with translating English education vocabulary. Is regular school our First Grade, which comes after Kindergarten? There are plenty of good arguments available for proto-reading activities in preschools. Conversely, there is also research that delaying formal reading instruction until age 8 can result in the process going more quickly and painlessly. I have no idea who is right in that; I only know it's an open discussion. To be clear, the true horror of late reading acquisition comes with the very possible outcome that educational attainment may never catch up.Poetlister wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:05 pmBefore they start regular school.
Isn't it Jimbo who likes Ayn Rand?Midsize Jake wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:13 pmI don't know about anybody else, but I just assumed it meant his kids had to wake up at 5:00 AM and get through at least 20 pages of Ayn Rand before they were allowed to have breakfast.
Sanger started his youngest at age 1 (no idea how many months this young human had been out of the womb, and it's months that matter at that age). He started his oldest on flashcards at age 22 months. He was encouraging someone else using flashcards with their 18 month old.
It's Sanger's lack of expertise in child development that makes me cringe because, sure, maybe his kids liked it and had the natural ability to excel in that exercise. Still, what did those 15 minutes per day replace in his kids' lives? Additionally, he advocates reading to children that young for an hour or two per day. I mean, sure, if the kid wants to hold still and not necessarily interact heavily, that's great and no biggie. However, extrapolating his own experience and advocating the same for people with vastly different children certainly could lead to trouble. I wonder why so many Ph.D. researchers on healthy child development never saw the light that Sanger saw. Hmm.