JK at school Idea!

Eva - posted on 09/28/2011

Thank you Ronda. I wish I would be able to homeschool but it is not possible right now and in this country it is not so easy as i in the US from that what I have heard.

Rhonda - posted on 09/28/2011

No offense taken at all. And although I find my kids to be exceptional, they just regular kids. My kids are now 18, 15, and 11 year old, so I hope they have perfected wiping their butt too. (lol) One trick I used to use with the youngest one was purchasing baby wipes and putting them next to the toilet paper. I taught him to use the dry paper twice then the wet then the dry again. The wet wipes gave him confidence that he could do it on his own. When he went to school, I put a travel pack in his backpack. When he didn't think he did a good job, he would get his wipes. We used the wipes until he was 7 or 8 years old. But I no longer had to worry about it at school.

My husband taught all the kids to tie their shoes at between two and three years old. I remember because my daughter would get so frustrated when it wasn't perfect. If you are unsatisfied with the structured learning environment provided, why not home-school? It is becoming a common method of education here in the US. I know many parents who home-school now and their kids are happier for it. That is the only way you can have total control over what and when your child learns.

Eva - posted on 09/28/2011

Thank you Rhonda for your response. I congratulate you on training your 3 children to wippe their butts at 2 years old! This is absolute miracle and I hope their are not walking with half the job done. Most kids learn that at 5-6years old so your kids are exceptional. Tighing shoes and the other thing is not in my opinion special care but normal care for this stage of development and if our government provide schooling at this age they suppose to make sure that they provide appropriate care. I do not care if it is free and don't think I should be grateful since it is a low quality care and education. I wish to be able to pay for a good care like in other places in the world when governments do not push kids to grow up as fast as possible but on their own pace meaning like normal kids. Then they grow up as normal human beings not neurotic, blindly obedient, thoughtless sheeple. Do not get offended please ..I care and see mistakes that is why I talk...

Rhonda - posted on 09/28/2011

Ewa, all three of my children started preschool at the age of 2 years old. To attend school, it was a requirement that they were able to tie their own shoes and wipe their own butt. My husband and I took great care in making sure our children could do these things. I supplied a extra clothes just in case it didn't work out, but it was an unusual occurance if they were used. I also understood that these were going to be the requirements when school came into consideration. The purpose of school is to provide an educational foundation for students, the assumption is that parents are responsible for their developmental foundation. May I also add that I paid as much as $120 a week for school. No free school was provided. I guess what I'm saying that it is the parents responsibility to prepare your child to start school, that is not the school's job. Teacher's are trained to educate your child. It is unreasonable to expect special care to be given to your child when other students in the class a prepared to comply with the rules already. I agree it may take some time for your son to get used to his new environment and new rules, but the responsibility fall on you to make that happens, but the teachers. If coddling is what you are looking for, then maybe a nanny would be more appropriate for you.