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 12 months previous. These diphthong flip books saved him occupied for hours. He was reciting the alphabet backwards by the point he was a 12 months and a half previous and was in a position to learn highway indicators as properly.
I talked and sang to him all through my being pregnant and I actually consider that was a great head begin. I turned every thing right into a studying expertise and he was in a position to get pleasure from 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 start out studying? That’s a waste of three years when a baby’s life can — and ought to be — extra fulfilling, and your individual life might be simpler and crammed with extra surprise than you may think about.
Sheila Winston, West Hills
