I think all parents on this site were active with their babies, talking to them, reading to them, doing wooden puzzle shapes. If you did nothing but feed and change them, how different would their scores be?
I have to say I did very little to help our kids "learn" other than sitting on the sideline watching them explore. The younger one never had a book read to him yet he still figured out how to read phonetically right after he turned 2 ...about the same age his brother was when he figured out how to do math addition. They both like PBS tv shows, ebooks and video games as their preferred source of "education". I'm sure they could do even "more" if I was more actively involved in their learning but even without it, they still stand out a lot when compared to their friends / age mates.
... I should add ... it's not that I didn't want to be involved, they just did not let me. Any help from me would turn into big meltdowns and attitude.
