Ds is 2 and 8 months. I have been interested in Steiner Waldorf approach to the early years - i.e. nothing academic until they are older, but he is unstoppable and to be fair we have always read to him anyway.
There are no Steiner kindergartens, so a group of us are setting one up. In the meantime I enrolled him in Montessori, with serious reservations in December because he was already advanced intellectually with the idea that he would stay there until school rather than disrupt him and the Steiner kindie would be for other kids. He can now phonetically spell some words, based on 2/3 mornings a week at the montessori since then. They said they don't do it with him, but he pipes up with the answer when they are talking to older kids.
The question is, would you take him out of Montessori? Shouldn't children just be children and run around and play in the mud as so on? I could send him to another childminder instead. Part of me feels though that he just adores cognitive learning and if this is who he really is I should go with it, but part of me wants to protect him from academia at such a young age.
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