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Anyone read Better Late Than Early by Moore?
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What did you think? I think it goes along pretty well with Charlotte Mason ideas. It has given me a lot of confidence in waiting longer to introduce formal learning. I wish I had read this when I first started homeschooling.
A couple years ago. I agree. We waited for reading until 6. We are doing basic math, but with manipulatives and definately waiting on the grammer until about 10 or so. It is so much easier when they are ready and can really grasp what you are trying to teach. The hardest part is the comparison to others.
They suggest waiting even to 8 or 10 to teach reading formally. I’m considering this for my 1 year old (waiting). It is hard not to compare…very true.
This book and others by Dr.Moore are what convince my dad to agree to homeschool us as kids. He knows his stuff! Also try to read Home Grown Kids and School Can Wait.
On the reading, he really says that the integrated maturation age generally doesn’t “happen” until around 8 to 10. I agree with not trying to get a child to read as a “little” however, it would be hard to hold back a child who has verbally asked to be taught to read if they seem ready….I would just make sure they’re still getting plenty of outside time and more white board work than close up work to help their eyes develop normally. There’s obviously way more to the Moore’s but those are just thoughts off the top of my head. I always recommend these books to those “analytical types” who are considering homeschooling. Good Stuff!
LillyLou
Loved that book. I’d have a hard time waiting that long, though I agree it’s o.k. If my child were struggling, I wouldn’t feel bad about just waiting. They catch up so fast when they’re ready. :)Gina
I did this method with all of my 6 children. Our youngest is 12 now and oldest 29. The youngest to read was 8 when she took off and it only took 2 months of “basics” and I didn’t touch phonics again. I just made sure that she had “good” writing to read. The oldest was 10 and it was our son. I started teaching one of them at 6 when her sister was 8 and she wasn’t ready til about 8. One of our other daughters I waited til 9 and she could have learned when she was 7 or 8. Our last 2 I waited til 10 or 11. I think that it would have benefited one of our daughters to learn earlier such as around 8 or 9. We never used “easy” readers with any of the children and so glad I didn’t. My 14yr. old taught herself to read with her bible. I gave her a few tools and she took off. I would help her as needed.
They do catch up extremely fast. It is slower going to learn to read when they are young. I’m glad that our children didn’t read to early so that they made their own world in their own imagination instead of reading it in a book. They hardly ever watched movies and we don’t cable tv. I didn’t put an emphasis on “knowledge” but “other more important things” for that stage I believe.
I heard about CM back in 1989 but I didn’t know how to implement it but I got a few things from it such as NO…easy readers and good literary content and we never did “texts”.
All in all in my experience I think 8 or 9 is a good age depending on their maturity. I know that for us age 6 with all of my children was to young.
Cyndi
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