Your first-grader comes home from school with a backpack full of worksheets, reading assignments, and math problems that consume your entire evening—transforming what should be playtime and family bonding into battles over pencils and tears over subtraction, while parents across different countries watch their six-year-olds spend anywhere from zero minutes to ninety minutes nightly on … Read more
Your daughter turns four on August 20th, and the school system expects her to start reception on September 1st—barely eleven days after her birthday—alongside children who are already nearly five, creating an eleven-month developmental gap that research demonstrates affects academic achievement, social confidence, and even long-term career outcomes yet receives minimal acknowledgment from educational authorities … Read more
Your preschooler struggles to count past five without losing track, cannot determine whether three cookies or seven cookies represent more without laboriously counting each one individually, shows no intuitive grasp that adding one more item creates a larger quantity, relies exclusively on finger counting long after classmates have internalized basic number relationships, and becomes disproportionately … Read more
Your kindergartner returns from school clutching a list of sight words to memorize, unable to explain why “said” doesn’t sound like it looks—meanwhile, your colleague’s child attends a school where daily lessons focus on matching letters to their sounds, slowly building reading through systematic patterns—and suddenly you’re questioning whether your school’s teaching method will actually … Read more