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I not long ago read an article written by the father of a 3 year-old girl. This father believes strongly that children may and will have to be taught to read (phonetically) before they reach the age of three; and he has developed materials to trade you explaining the method he created. On his website, he offers as proof of his success a video of his daughter at age 2 years 11 months (well, that IS before the age of three – barely) fluently reading. Note: Those are his words, not mine.

If any of you have watched this video, you know that there is not one thing “fluent” regarding the way this child painstakingly sounds out each word. In addition, there is perfectly NO indication that this little girl genuinely knows what the words mean or that she has any conception of what idea the sentence is conveying. With the evident exception of this father, humans in general understand that reading involves comprehension.

This father has received criticism for pushing his daughter too hard. His response to criticism is to say “Why wouldn’t you do this?” and “You can’t push a child too hard.” I suspect that he is sooner rather than later going to learn that he is very faulty when he says “You can’t push a child too hard.”

3 Reasons That Pushing Your Child To Read Early Can Be Bad For Your Child:

1. Literacy Problems and Rebellion: With so a heap of parents jumping on the early reading bandwagon, we are benefitting more info in a literal sense each day with regards to what is in truth happening to these children. Regardless of reading method used by parents, numerous of the children who are being pushed into reading at too young an age are devising literacy difficultnesses as they get older. In addition, a good deal of of these same children become rebellious as they age. You can, indeed, push too hard!

2. Comprehension Problems: As evidenced by the child in the video, a heap of of these early readers are not learning to comprehend what they read. When these children enter school and are confronted with the expectation of learning the significations of words and sentences and paragraphs, they get confused? They don’t perceive what this has to do with reading. They think they are good readers. Their resistance to learning how to correctly use words drasti slows down what would other than as supposed or expected be rather rapid reading progress in school.

3. Missed Critical Period For Learning Math: With discoveries from brain exploration into how we learn, we now know that there is more indispensable learning that needs to take place for the duration of the ages of 1 to 4 – these are the “critical years” for establishing a strong math and logic foundation.

What is in particular discouraging and hindering when it comes to these negative effects of early reading is that they are totally unnecessary! Research is showing that this reading level differential is NOT maintained through grade school. The other children quickly catch up while the early readers are stuck with their problems.

Please understand that no one is saying parents shouldn’t be working with their pre-school child on language skills. These same years are as critical for forming a strong language foundation as they are for forming a strong math foundation. The word “foundation” is key here. We ought to not be pushing our children to do multiplication and we will have to not be pushing our children to read for the duration of these years. What we need to be doing is building the foundation for both!

Yes, I know that there are children who formulate reading achievements at an early age. My own son was one of those children almost 33 years ago. He seemed to understand from the very beginning the conceptions that letters have sounds which form words which may be joined with other words to make sentences which may be combined to convey ideas. He was three and a half, and I had just started to work with letter sounds. He took over and did it all himself because HE WAS READY. These children are not the topic of this article.

All children fall someplace along a “readiness” continuum. My daughter, two years younger than her brother, did NOT get the conceptions of reading until almost the end of initial grade. I confess I was concerned. I shouldn’t have been. She is now a voracious reader and an magnificent writer as well.

It is of the utmost importance that we take vantage of the critical years for both language AND math. To not do so, sets our children up for failure in mathematics (the failure rate for Algebra is 50% and has been for decades) while using cherished time on early reading which has not proven to be successful or valuable. My answer to the father’s question of “Why wouldn’t you do this?” is “Why would you do this to your own child?”

As parents, we serve our children best by providing the suitable foundation at the best time (critical period) and then getting out of their way!

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