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Originally posted by Dave Nordhoff
My wife and I have spent 10 to 15 minutes a day reading to and with our daughters since they were a few months old. They are now 6 and 8 and are way ahead of most children in their classes. It takes so little effort and the results are so great. One of the first words they were taught was please. When they started kindergarten they could write their names and address and read pretty well. Parents that expect the school system to teach their children everything will be disappointed.
My 2 cents,
Dave
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Bullcrap!!
My 13 y/o son has problems with dislexia and some sort of learnign diability that we have not been able to pinpoint but his tutor says he compensates for it very well although it takes a lof of his resources to accomplish that.
We never realized how bad off he was unitl we saw our 3 y/o develop.
We depended on the teachers in the school to monitor him and tell us if they saw something wrong. They never did they didn't care. They could not be bothered. He just annoyed them and they beat him down because he could not keep up.
Now that we see how naturally everythign is coming to our 3 y/o we realize, much too late out 13 y/o had some serious issues ignored by the school and we didn't realize it because he was our 1st child. If this had been the case with our 2nd child after a normal 1st we would have picked up on it immediatly.
My 3 y/o has know for a while now the sounds of every letter in the alphabet, his colors, not only basic lots of others as well, all his shapes, and now he is starting to understand days of the week, all these things did not come to out older one until 1st grade and later.
The "professional" teachers of his school let him and his parents down in a huge way. Furthermore some of them felt the need to attck his self esteem because he was not smart enough to keep up.
We read to him every night for longer than 15 minutes, more like 1/2 an hour each night, it has always been a bedtime ritual. I have worked so hard with him to help him pass his classes after his teachers failed to teach him the tools he needed to pass. In middle school he got home at 4:30 and went straight to a tutor for 1 hour then we got him back home at 6:00, ate dinner and did home work until 8-9 at night EVERY night.
My 12 y/o son had no life, I remember going out to play and having fun growing up, he got none of that just work all day in school and work all night at home.
Something had to change and the best thing I did was get him away from those *******s. I wish I did this when he was little it makes me cry sometimes that I let him down so much and did not realize that his public school was beating I hope I can make this up to him over the next couple of years.
He tries really hard to get C's by some of your expectations on here he is a failure. Too bad his professional teachers could not pick up on his problems. I am sure it my fault somehow because I was not in the school every day and I didn't do 10 hours a night homework and read for 6 hours with him.