To the editor: Are you kidding me (“Dad and mom, chill: Why you don’t want to show your 3-year-old to learn,” June 24)? My son, although admittedly precocious, was uncovered to phonics, diphthongs, numbers and entire phrases earlier than he was 1 yr previous. These diphthong flip books stored him occupied for hours. He was reciting the alphabet backwards by the point he was a yr and a half previous and was in a position to learn highway indicators as nicely.
I talked and sang to him all through my being pregnant and I really consider that was head begin. I turned all the pieces right into a studying expertise and he was in a position to take pleasure in extra of his life and talk his wants much better than his friends.
Heck, he was besting me at backgammon at 3 years previous! So why wait to begin studying? That’s a waste of three years when a baby’s life can — and must be — extra fulfilling, and your personal life will be simpler and stuffed with extra surprise than you may think about.
Sheila Winston, West Hills
