She said she knows several other parents who say their kids are already reading at 4, but they don't seem to enjoy it~ I wondered what it would take to make a kid learn all that stuff if they weren't ready, and didn't enjoy it.
When I hear something like this, I just assume that the parents are using a liberal definition of "reading." E.g., the child recognizes his or her name and a few signs here & there. I just can't (or don't want to?) imagine a child who is really reading at 4 without any interest.
