For example, when a "friend" noticed that DD was reading, she launched into a monologue about "children's brains being damaged because their nueral pathways are set prematurely when they learn to read before the age of 7". (That was the gist of it anyway.) Then she went on to say, "...but I don't really mean your kids. (Wink, wink)". I have no idea if I should be insulted or not. I find myself wondering that very thing *every* time I spend more than two minutes with her. Needless to say, I am distancing myself from that relationship.
I don't know if I would bother to be insulted, but what an odd idea! Reading before seven can't be
that uncommon, can it?? Not that I've not heard odd ideas before, but I can't bring myself to take them seriously. My personal favorite is that you can't read until you've lost your baby teeth (incisors - not all of them!) Well poor DS is apparently never going to read (*snort*) because he has no adult teeth under those lower central incisors. They may never come out! (And if they do, they'll need to be replaced with an implant.) Man, what I could have saved in books and magazines if THAT one were true! LOL
