As I noted in a previous post, we have been trying to speed up child development for years. Generations, really. Whether through skills-building activities, or Sesame Street or Little Einstein toys, we have made it our mission to get our child to speak first, speak the most words or do Task X first or failing that, do it the best. It hasn’t been working . Children today hit developmental markers at the same ages as children 600 years ago. The amount of words your child will know and use at 18, the amount and difficulty of mathematical calculations they can do in their head and how otherwise “smart” they are is genetically pretty much set at conception. You may have also heard that we have fallen behind many other countries on standardized tests, especially in the realm of math and science. Maybe you believe this, maybe you don’t. The point of this post is that all our obsessive, “must get our children into Harvardesque pre-schools” compuncti...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.