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To: SMGFan

I and my three children were proficient readers at least a year prior to enrolling in grade one. We are not necessarily a whole lot smarter than the average, but just possibly being nurtured in a family environment was helpful. Government interventions, however well intentioned, are not adequate substitutes.


50 posted on 03/07/2013 4:12:58 PM PST by Elsiejay
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To: Elsiejay
I and my three children were proficient readers at least a year prior to enrolling in grade one. We are not necessarily a whole lot smarter than the average, but just possibly being nurtured in a family environment was helpful. Government interventions, however well intentioned, are not adequate substitutes.

Amen. My parents and grandparents encouraged me to read, and they said I was doing so by age three. I doubt I could comprehend much of what I was reading at that time, but once that process started...what a wonderful world opened up for me. They bought me truckloads of comics and books. Every week we would visit my grandmother and she'd ask if I had finished the last Hardy Boys book she'd given me...when I said 'yes' she would disappear and then reappear with the next volume. They are here in my study (and were part of the inspiration for my FR name).

Parents (and grandparents) are the key. You gave them such a gift by encouraging them.
93 posted on 03/07/2013 6:08:04 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Elsiejay
We are not necessarily a whole lot smarter than the average, but just possibly being nurtured in a family environment was helpful.

Not *just possibly* and *helpful*, but *absolutely essential* and *critical*.

It known that parental involvement with their children at a young age, especially 18-26 months, is absolutely essential and critical to a child's mental development and will determine whether they succeed in becoming literate or not.

I'll guess you didn't talk baby talk to them either.

127 posted on 03/08/2013 6:16:23 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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