Re: challenging an intelligent child

In article <1191012180.236989.24600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Beliavsky <beliavsky@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I think a
motivated and educated mother at home could prepare a child for 1st
grade just as well as a kindergarten could.

How could she prepare the child for:

(a) public speaking (assuming she didn't have septuplets)
(b) bells
(c) raising one's hand to speak
(d) taking turns
(e) not interrupting
(f) moving around the school
(g) morning assembly and associated etiquette
(h) talking to the ladies in the office
(i) fixed lunch/break times
(j) electing classmates to the Student Council

And that's just a few things off the top of my head!

DS1 was certainly ahead of K intellectually, but that gave him more space to
understand the school as a system and to socialise -- and his teacher gave him
appropriate work anyway.

Universal preschool has become a favored political cause among
Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who would "invest $10 Billion in
Universal Preschool: Hillary has a detailed plan to provide universal
access to high quality pre-school for all four-year olds through a
federal-state partnership."
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/youthopportunity/

Excellent idea! 4yos are given priority in pre-schools here, and there are
plans to make preschools more widely available here, particularly to
disadvantaged families. (Imagine what a shock school is if you've never seen
a book before! There are plenty of families where the parents are neither
"motivated" nor "educated".)

. I have sent my oldest son to preschool because our babysitter does
not mentally stimulate our children, but if my wife stayed at home, I
think she would do a better job teaching and socializing our kids than
a preschool.

Depends on what you think your wife would do differently from your babysitter.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/
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