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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 468913" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Lisa, I swear, every time I read these things about Katie, I just want to backhand her! I mean, how incredibly lazy does someone have to be to let their children just <em>vegetate</em> and not teach them anything until they start school? Even if she was too lazy to work with him herself, and even if they were on a very limited budget, all she had to do is turn on the TV! There's some wonderful kids educational programs on PBS. My son was read to from infancy and I worked with him a lot. He was both reading and writing (crudely) when he started kindergarten but I never specifically taught him. He just absorbed most of it from watching Sesame Street! He was a Sesame Street fanatic, twice a day on week days and three times on Saturdays! And it costs <u>nothing</u> to get good children's books from the library and read to them! There really is no excuse, much less no excuse for him being completely undisciplined at that age. You just can't treat a child like a baby all his life and then expect him to do well in school. Poor kid is going to have such a rough time adapting to school and it was all so unnecessary! I've seen my daughter use every opportunity, even when he's playing, to teach Ethan his numbers and colors and letters and he's soaking it up like a little sponge and he's only two! All it takes is a little effort!</p><p></p><p>My brother and I were just talking about this the other day. His daughter and her two boys live with them and her oldest boy just started kindergarten. When we started school, we were virtually little "blank slates" and were taught all this in kindergarten and first grade. We didn't get a lot of the academics at home but we knew discipline and our parents made sure we behaved ourselves and could conduct ourselves properly in school. When our own kids started kindergarten 25-30 years ago it was assumed that they would already know the basics ... the alphabet, colors, numbers, shapes. But now, kindergarten is so much different! I was amazed at what they have my great-nephew doing after only a few weeks in kindergarten! They are not only supposed to already know all that, they are writing out the words for them (r-e-d, b-l-u-e, etc.), they are expected to be able to read those words when they see them and learning all kinds of sight words, and even doing simple math. Much more advanced than even when my own kids started school. Now they just assume that all the kids have been to preschool or Headstart or that the parents worked with them enough that they can start out at this level. No wonder poor little Evan is already hopelessly lost!</p><p></p><p>And the reason that your grandkids cling to you so much is that they know that you give a d*mn about them! Kids always know those things. When you're around they get to experience a little taste of a normal family life that they've never known before and they feel safe with you. You are an absolutely awesome grandma and they are so fortunate to have you in their lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 468913, member: 1883"] Lisa, I swear, every time I read these things about Katie, I just want to backhand her! I mean, how incredibly lazy does someone have to be to let their children just [I]vegetate[/I] and not teach them anything until they start school? Even if she was too lazy to work with him herself, and even if they were on a very limited budget, all she had to do is turn on the TV! There's some wonderful kids educational programs on PBS. My son was read to from infancy and I worked with him a lot. He was both reading and writing (crudely) when he started kindergarten but I never specifically taught him. He just absorbed most of it from watching Sesame Street! He was a Sesame Street fanatic, twice a day on week days and three times on Saturdays! And it costs [U]nothing[/U] to get good children's books from the library and read to them! There really is no excuse, much less no excuse for him being completely undisciplined at that age. You just can't treat a child like a baby all his life and then expect him to do well in school. Poor kid is going to have such a rough time adapting to school and it was all so unnecessary! I've seen my daughter use every opportunity, even when he's playing, to teach Ethan his numbers and colors and letters and he's soaking it up like a little sponge and he's only two! All it takes is a little effort! My brother and I were just talking about this the other day. His daughter and her two boys live with them and her oldest boy just started kindergarten. When we started school, we were virtually little "blank slates" and were taught all this in kindergarten and first grade. We didn't get a lot of the academics at home but we knew discipline and our parents made sure we behaved ourselves and could conduct ourselves properly in school. When our own kids started kindergarten 25-30 years ago it was assumed that they would already know the basics ... the alphabet, colors, numbers, shapes. But now, kindergarten is so much different! I was amazed at what they have my great-nephew doing after only a few weeks in kindergarten! They are not only supposed to already know all that, they are writing out the words for them (r-e-d, b-l-u-e, etc.), they are expected to be able to read those words when they see them and learning all kinds of sight words, and even doing simple math. Much more advanced than even when my own kids started school. Now they just assume that all the kids have been to preschool or Headstart or that the parents worked with them enough that they can start out at this level. No wonder poor little Evan is already hopelessly lost! And the reason that your grandkids cling to you so much is that they know that you give a d*mn about them! Kids always know those things. When you're around they get to experience a little taste of a normal family life that they've never known before and they feel safe with you. You are an absolutely awesome grandma and they are so fortunate to have you in their lives. [/QUOTE]
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