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From: blk@sytek.UUCP (Brian L. Kahn)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Early reading programs
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 13:38:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 15 13:38:11 1983
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I think kids can handle most things.  Describing flashcards for an infant
as a "recipe for disaster" is surely an overstatement.

However, there will be consequences.  My sister taught me to read when
i was four.  She thought it was fun.  I enjoyed it also, but when i got 
to kindergarten i was in trouble.  I didn't want to be so different!
I pretended that i didn't know the alphabet, like everyone else.
These problems continued throughout my schooling.

There is so much to learn, why push something like reading?  There will
be time aplenty later.  From my experience, i advocate other kinds of
learning.  Go out and see things, people, activities.

B<