Article: Teaching our children to be busy

PAM LOBLEY
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
08-14-2006

Teaching our children to be busy
PAM LOBLEY
Date: 08-14-2006, Monday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions

IS YOUR CHILD ready for first grade? Fourth grade? College? I have been reading about parents tutoring preschoolers to give them that little edge for kindergarten or taking extra measures to ready them for first grade. I know there are many teachers who give out summer packets of handwriting or journal-keeping or math problems to keep the older kids from forgetting what they've learned over the summer.

I, for one, was advised to help my youngest son with his fine-motor skills. I'm hoping that unwrapping an ice cream sandwich counts as an ...

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