Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site apple.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!apple!cutter From: cutter@apple.UUCP (Mark Cutter) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Better Baby Institute Message-ID: <56791@apple.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-May-85 15:14:36 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.56791 Posted: Fri May 10 15:14:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 14-May-85 07:20:44 EDT References: <49983@apple.UUCP> <1135@cbosgd.UUCP> Reply-To: cutter@apple.UUCP (Mark Cutter) Organization: Apple Education Research Group, Cupertino CA Lines: 25 In article smuga@mtuxo.UUCP (j.smuga) writes: >What I'm trying to say is that there is >a readiness factor at work in children's education. And generations of >children have learned to read and do arithmetic without the Better Baby >Institute. There are also generations of children who have never learned to read or do math. In fact, some estimates range as high as 40% of the graduating high school students today can't even read their own diploma. My goal in doing the reading, math, bits, swimming, music or any other program with Justin is not to force him through these things early, but to give him the opportunity to be exposed to them. Familiarity with anything when a child is young (less than six) makes it easier for him to learn that thing later. Witness foreign language. Many people hold that if you are not exposed to foreign language before age 10 that you will never become fluent in another language, no matter how hard you try. Yet if a child grows up in a multi-lingual household, he will be fluent in multiple languages by the time he is three! Work that into the readiness factor. mark cutter