What is your experience with either of these? I got a letter in the mail about 3 months ago (Alexis will be three this school year) about headstart. I took her in for the test and she passed ABOVE what they allow for children to start, but said she would be allowed in because of how little interaction she gets with other children. I decided I don't want her to go this soon, so maybe next year. Is it really worth sending a child to? They can't teach her anything they said....she knows her alphabet....verbally and can recognize them. She can count to 10 and recognize the numbers. She knows and can recognize all of her colors. She's AWESOME with her speech, she speaks plainly and a lot of people don't believe she's 2 just because of how she talks. She's just really not good with other kids. She's mean to them, hits them, bites them....just a bully. I've tried and tried to get her to stop....to no avail. Should I send her next year?
i only send my oldest to preschool when she was 4, to give her a year before kindergarten to get used to a classroom setting. are you at home or is she in daycare? if you're at home to teach her stuff i would say hold off until she is 4 and put her in that year. she may be more able to interact with other kids without being a bully and stuff by then. my youngest is going to be 3 this september and i'm holding off until next year to send her. like you said, there's nothing they can teach her that she doesnt altready know and usually its expensive.
I would say hold off a year. School is good for getting used to routines, social skills, and responsibility. Good luck!
I don't send my kids to preschool. My son started Kindergarten last year and is also way ahead of his peers. He is currently reading at a 2nd grade level, doing multiplication/division and is in the gifted program at his school....all without going to any school before Kinder. BUT, I did make sure to socialize my children a lot. I joined a local moms group, so that each of my children go to a playgroup with children their ages each week. My son has made his best friends this way and we do activities out of the house every day. I personally do not believe that school is necesssary before Kinder but you do have to make the effort to socialize your daughter and put her in activities so she does learn how to behave. Good luck! Also, I was thinking your daughter is the same age as mine. My daughter still has 3 years before she will enter Kindergarten since she is an Oct birthday, so there is still plenty of time if you do choose to send her to preschool.
Oh yea, I know she's too advanced for prek academically. I just want to be sure she gets the social aspect, she's only around 1 kid regularly, and up until this child had surgery, she and Alexis fought like cats and dogs (just like typical besties, I guess. Lol). I definitely don't want to send her this year. I just took her for the test and to see what it's all about. I'm just questioning her ability to know that school is for sitting down and you HAVE to be nice. Alexis will get to start kindergarten in 2 years here, the cutoff date is the last day in September, and her birthday is Sept. 24. She's getting so big! I'll have to look into a moms group....a lot of girls I know are moms, they just don't like being around their kids. If I say 'group date to the park' they say 'group date to the bar'. I just don't get it. Thanks for the advice, mamas!
