Comments by "freedom dove" (@freedomdove) on "Teachers SOUND THE ALARM On DUMD KIDS As New Report EXPOSES DISASTER In Liberal City Schools" video.

  1. 12:30 mark: Absolutely. I started reading to my child from an extremely young age (sooner than 6 months). I would follow along with the sentences--pointing my finger at the words as I read them--so that he knew I was saying those words on the page as I spoke them. He was able to learn that connection early on, and that begat his reading abilities. His kitchen high-chair was multi-purpose when he was about a year old or so, and from then on until he outgrew it. He ate there and learned there. After he was well-fed and I had cleaned up the tray (and him--lol), I would tape construction paper to the tray and then I would take crayons and start writing the letters and numbers while saying them out loud. I would encourage him to write those things himself. Soon enough (after many months) he was writing out words and performing basic math, while verbalizing it all. It really wasn't that hard. He was literate (and using a computer) by the age of two or three. [Sadly, he was on that cusp between the "old" and "new" age (he's 22 now), so his handwriting skills are subpar compared to his typing skills. It is what it is, I guess....] I was very fortunate to be able to homeschool my kiddo. I did enroll him into preschool but very soon thereafter I had to take him out of there. He already knew what they were teaching and he was literally bored. He needed new information. He was also an only child, so all he wanted to do was socialize with the other kids. Lol. They told me he had ADHD, and that ended his experience in any kind of public school setting. I yanked him out of there because I knew better, since I witnessed him daily sitting at his little table doing workbook after workbook. My son had/has excellent concentration and learning skills, and I wasn't about to drug him with the ADD meds because some preschool teacher was trying to diagnose my son. I can't fathom his existence on those drugs at this point since I know how harmful they are. I didn't really know how bad it was at that time but I think I subconsciously knew, and I'm grateful for that inner knowing. I now personally believe that all the current hard-core druggies were raised on ADHD meds. They truly are the "gateway" drugs, and it's been wreaking havoc on our society for 2-3 decades. That's why we have so many young people dying of overdoses. 😠
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