How common is it to have a tutor for a 6 year old?

[pepsi]

A 6 year old girl at school, who is bright anyway, is having extra tuturoing out of school to improve her writing. I just wondered if lots of people do this. My ds is by no means top of the class and Im sure would benefit from such but my opinion is that 6 is too young to be pushing them that hard........does anyone else have a tutor this year. Like everyone I want my ds to do well and will do anything to help him, but am also concerned that he has a children and lots of fun.....life gets serious far to quickly anyway.

Hi we use a maths tutor and I am certainly not a pushy parent. I do it because my little boy (7) sits in class and does not understand why he does not 'get it' when all the other kids do which really affects his confidence. The reason we don't do this together at home is that I have tried and he works against me all the time and we end up arguing which is totally counter productive. He knows that on a Thursday evening for 30 minutes a nice lady will sit down and explain to him gently what he does not undertstand at school - he does not work against her as would only do that at home. I can honestly say that his maths has improved and he got a 2A in his SATS which 6 months ago he would probably not have achieved a 2C. So there you. I know it's easy to judge people as pushy but a lot of the time we are trying to do the best we can with the resources we have to hand.