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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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Gosh, my DS wasn't the first kid in his play group to walk. As long as he did learn to walk, I had thought it was totally irrelevant that there were other kids, both in the group and in the nation, who walked well before he did - and here it turns out if he had a teacher who had been on the ball enough to graph it out for silly ol' me, I would have found out I had better get him a Thighmaster or something so that he'd succeed . . . .
Fall behind whom?
What exactly do you mean by "dumbing down?" Seems to me if your child is learning how to interact socially with her peers that would be a good thing. Many highly intelligent children don't have that skill, and are pretty miserable because of it.
Just to address one thing...
When I was in first grade, I
You think a child imitating other children is "dumbing down"?????
ROFLMAOPIP!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, now I know not to bother with this debate any further.
I think you are confused about the word "respond".
Then again, you are the one who didn't see much value in being educated in the liberal arts.
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