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Monday, February 7, 2011

Middle Child

My middle son is 3 years old, very verbal and pretty bright (from my perspective). However, he is MUCH, MUCH less focused than my older son was at his age. This is totally okay, I don't expect or even want them to be carbon copies of each other, but some span of attention would be good. He starts preschool soon, and he's very excited, so I've been working with him at recognizing his name, some letters etc. And even though I know he knows the answers, he won't cooperate. Can anyone give me advice about how to engage a bright, unfocused, curious little boy about something other than robots, rockets and Batman?
Posted by Katie Purcell at 2:33 PM

1 comment:

  1. AnneMarch 4, 2011 at 11:53 AM

    Hi Katie,
    I'm currently reading the book "Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving them Behind" by Richard Whitmire. He says that boys are falling seriously behind in reading, which impacts all of their academic work, even math. But at the same time, he states that pushing too much pre-reading and academic-type work in preschool may actually backfire with boys; many of them [there are always exceptions] just aren't ready.
    If he's only 3, my advice would be to just engage him in creative play, let him have fun and don't push learning letters, etc.
    But, I am no educational expert! Just passing along something I read from a book that seems to be very well-researched.

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