Reading by 2 1/2 years old!
A crucial factor many homeschoolers note in their decision to homeschool is that all children develop at their own pace. School just doesn't cater for that. Sure, if your child is reading by the age of 2 it's quite an achievement - not very many children are that advanced at such an early age. What I have yet to see is a homeschool parent telling us that his/her child began reading at age 7 or 8 and being proud of that.
Also, why do they always seem to make a point that their 5 year old child is reading at the "6th grade level" or whatever. Doesn't this reek a little of hypocrisy? Your child isn't reading at the "6th grade level" they are reading at THEIR level. Aren't they trying to get away from the competitiveness and "arbitrary goals" set by the school?
Another pet peeve of mine is parents who can't spell teaching their children how to spell. I don't know - I'm definitely a perfectionist; very hard on myself though quite forgiving when it comes to others *grin*. I can usually tell the difference between a typo and flat out ignorance.
It's all very well to teach at home and all, but please teach the WRITE RITE RIGHT thing.
posted by Tasmiya at 3:03 AM
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I do personally have an IRL homeschooling friend whose oldest son for whatever reason didn't develop the ability to read until he was about 8 years old. This in a family of very avid readers, but it never "clicked" for him on how to read for himself until one day she finally found him sounding out words in a 1st grade level book on his own in his bedroom and within a few months he had reached grade level again. What she was proud of was the fact that she had let him go at his own pace and that he had not been in school where he would have been identified as "learning disabled" and put on a "remedial" track to try to force him to learn sooner than he was able. He would have also gotten a lot of negative messages about himself and his abilities in that environment that would have stunted his motivation and abilities too.
Another friend of mine is having the opposite problem with her child's Islamic school teachers. Her child's teachers "correct" her child's work incorrectly and put blatantly ungrammatical things instead, then she sends it back to the teacher corrected and she has complained to the school several times. Yiks.
You know, come to think of it a study done here in Australia recently discovered primary school teachers severely lacking in basic grammar and spelling. The majority of them didn't know what a "syllable" was. Scary.
Oops ha ha I just checked back here and noticed an ironic typo-- I do know how to "yikes", really I do :)
there is a book called free range education available in the UK it is about different ppls experiences there are a few stories in there about children not learning to read till much later, 10 year olds. anyway wasalam
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