I am pretty underwhlelmed by kindergarten

[DumbAss Tanker]

underpants   (1000+ posts)             Fri Sep-17-10 08:41 PM
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I am pretty underwhlelmed by kindergarten

Don't worry, I know it's getting old after so many, many tries, but I'm

sure

you'll pass it this time.

[Evil_Conservative]

'Tween you me an the fence post, how do you suppose the dummies reconcile factory day care facilities with other corporate entities?  Or what about the additional stress put upon young children to achieve at an early age thus depriving them of a normal childhood.  Dummies only smat when they face palm their forehead, rarely ever else.

Another point of interest, have you seen an infomercial on a young kids learning CD program?  I caught some of the blather one day but since we have no young ones I didn't really pay a lot of attention.  Seems like it had kids reading whole words and sentences at a very young age long before kindergarten.

We have Preschool Prep Company "Meet The Letters" for our daughter.  That's how she is learning her letters at the moment.  She's had that DVD since she was six months old, but recently started repeating "L" and "O" when they flash on the screen.

She has Meet The Numbers/Colors/Sight Words 1 as well, but she is more in love with the Meet The Letters.  We read books to our daughter, but she throws a fit until she gets to hold the book and point at words and say, "do do deee doe doe", silly baby gibberish.  It's really cute.

It's not impossible for children to learn at an early age, but this parent is over exaggerating just a bit in my opinion.

[Ballygrl]

My cousins son is a year and a half, I have no doubt this kid is going to be smart because both his parents are book smart and street smart, but right now he doesn't give a hoot about learning anything, he's way too busy running around exploring his new world, and throwing food at people LOL.

[true_blood]

How nice. The DUmmie's child is "special".
 

[Evil_Conservative]

BTW--this kid is "highly gifted" by DUmmy standards:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

[AllosaursRus]

I was watching a show last night, I think it was on TLC about smart kids. There was this one kid that supposedly had a higher IQ than Einstein (176 or something) and the mom had him over scheduled to the max. Let his sister play video games but would only let him play for a few minutes then make him go to his room and read. When he would get to play with kids his dad would quiz the kids with math equations, seriously...what kid is going to want to spend time with another kid and get pop quizzes from his parents every time?  The mom was worse than the dad. The kid is going to burn out long before he gets out of school. Letting kids be kids is just as important as fostering their intellect.

When I was 4, my Dad got hit head on by a drunk driver crossin' 4 lanes on the freeway and hittin' him head on at about 70 mph on the on-ramp. He was in a coma for about 6 months. I learned to read the comics while he was in a hospital bead in my living room.

I didn't go to kindy garden. I was too busy watchin' over Dad while Mom was at work. I got my early education emptyin' bed pans.

He was in a body cast for damn near a year. I read AllyOop, Dick Tracy and POGO to him every day for 8 months! 4 months of it, he wasn't even awake!

When I started 1st grade, I taught my buds to read!

Yeah, dipshit, you're kid is special!