Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:33:16PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >> > Any alternative suggestions? >> >> Wooden blocks. Duplo when the child is a bit older. > > He's got more than enough legacy stuff. We'll send him > to a forest kindergarten later (not Waldorf, we're not > that hippy),
Good choice. Waldorf is a branch of Steiner's "anthroposophy", which is more or less a cult from what I can tell. >> (I'm old fashioned.) > > I'm also old fashioned (Nintendo is anathema) but he's crazy > about any electronics gadgets, and an interactive game is > a much better pacifier than a portable DVD player. (At least > that's my excuse). > > He always bugs us about letters and numbers, let him learn > the letters by himself. I learned to read from educational television, or so I'm told -- I was too young to be forming memories at the time. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
