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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Teaching your baby to read/math
Message-ID: <3774@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 02:08:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 02:08:07 1983
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Children are learning all the time.  If they are not learning math
and reading from flash cards, then they are learning something
about their environment, their family, and themselves (assuming
reasonably interesting surroundings and caring attentive parents).
I do not think that parents who choose to have their children
read and do math very early are doing any harm, but I don't know
of any evidence that this early achievement has any impact on
later success, positive or negative.

We have chosen with our children to let them choose themselves
each thing that they want to learn about.  

Einstein didn't even talk until he was 4.-- 
spoken:	mark weiser
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