“Early reading was associated with early academic success, but less lifelong educational attainment and worse midlife adjustment. Early school entry was associated with less educational attainment, worse midlife adjustment, and most importantly, increased mortality risk.”
This study gathered follow-up data from the Terman Life Cycle Study (N = 1,023) to examine how age at first reading and age at school entry relate to grade school academic performance, lifelong educational attainment, midlife health and mental...
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Children first learn to listen and speak, then use these and other skills to learn to read and write. This is why socializing in the real world, with all ages, is much more important than learning how to read at an early age. Pointing at each word as you read to your child will help connect the written word to the spoken word which works wonders in helping children learn how to read.
"Educator Linda Dobson has declared that in a home environment where parents value reading and writing, “childre…
"Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now." ~ David Elkind, [American child psychologist and author]
"Today families are caught in a paradox. We’re parenting during a time when scientists increasingly tell us free play is vital to the health of our kids, yet schools and policies are pushing us in the opposite direction— in an agitated rush toward early academics. The gap between what we know about young children and what we do with young children…
“If we’re not forced to conform to standard timetables for success, we can—and will—bloom on our own schedules. And we can do it with a deeper sense of mission and a greater feeling of contentment.” ~ Rich Karlgaard
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“Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They’re basically little scientists. If we don’t stop that process, it will continue.” ~ Grace Llewellyn
Kindergarten is a German word meaning “Children’s Garden”
[Remember What I Said About Preschool?]
[The Truth About Pre-K]
“The research is clear. Academic training in kindergarten has no long-term benefit. In fact, it may cause long-term harm. It does not red…
It seems our natural instinct is to resist confinement before our curiosity is crushed!
And this is just a small portion of the preschool population as it only covers Public Preschools, not Private.
School deprives people of the necessities of life in exchange for an artificial reality that keeps people enslaved while they chase pieces of paper. Schooling is the dehumanization of humanity that normalizes insanity. Schooling is the exact opposite of what humanity needs to thrive which is why it sucks the life out of you. People literally sacrifice themselves for their schooling and this reality couldn’t be more obvious than it is today with schools and colleges force vaccinating students en …