What can happen when parents pressure academics with their preschooler?

Question

What can happen when parents pressure academics with their preschooler?

Answer 1

play is the most important academic of preschool children they learn by doing and must be exposed to as many concepts as possible in the most fun environment....as they accomplish "simple" tasks...like stacking blocks they are learning about sizes, shapes, balance, social skills, and team work all of these are the basis of math, science and cooperation....with these as a basis they can begin to learn number concepts and shapes, sizes, how to solve problems and how to work together.

when they are cooking they learn basic number concepts, sharing, cause and effect, and self help skills all precursers to math, social and science skills

and on and on but the most important thing about learning for preschoolers is IT HAS TO BE FUN!!!!! if its not fun children loose interest very fast and as numerous studies have shown both in the us and across the world the earlier you push stringent academics does more harm than good.....in europe children were found to make originally great strides but other children who started at later times or ages caught up to their "precousious" counterparts by age seven or eight years....and in us studies children who were "pushed" into heavy pressured academics too early often pushed back especially when there were no academic outlets for them at their schools(ie gifted and talented education classes or the possiblities of skipping grades)

and even when children had these avail to them children who were allowed to skip grades for academic reasons were often very far behind in social skills and often felt left behind in other activities like drivers education, sports etc as they wind up being too young (sometimes by law) to participate in the previous activities again leaving them as outcasts in their "academic life" and in their "social life"

children need to play to learn and learn to play to grow.....there are some pamphlets available from the us education dept or the naeyc(national association for the education of young children) that are called something like "childs play is learning or learning is childs play"

and talk to your local preschool/headstart teacher or ask your local librarian for more assistance in locating further information on this topic.

Answer 2

They might act out and not want to go back to school.

Answer 3

they wont want to work anymore

Answer 4

Pressure is a negative concept. Obviously you would not want to pressure a preschooler. On the other hand, depriving a preschooler of academic experiences they wish to experience is something you should also avoid. As a gifted todder I taught myself to read (my widower dad worked all the time), and my daycare had no books!

Depriving preschoolers of reading experiences and some valid academic experiences that would have probably been enjoyable for me and others seems also to be avoided. It seems like you should not be so zealous about avoiding pressuring children and just providing pure play that you also avoid providing academic and stimulating experiences that preschoolers would wish to experience.

Answer 5

It can go two ways. Either the student will grasp the concepts of focus and structure in academics and love learning.... or the child will rebel and begin to turn away from learning and become discouraged.

Remember to use positive reinforcements with young children to make them feel good about what they are doing. Always make learning fun!

Answer 6

Pressure can give positive or negative effects on any preschoolers, it also depends on individual kids and their parents. Look at the positive side, if kids receive a bit of pressure by the parents who understand how to give a positive and suitable pressure, then the kids will benefit from that. The kids will show confident and enjoy learning.

If the parents give negatives pressure or too much pressure on their kids, it may turn out negatively.  Fear of learning; dislike school or even self-doubt.

Answer 7

The kid might grow up and do evil things to his parents while they sleep.

Answer 8

Many things...the child may not want to go to school, start throwing increasing tantrums, become disobedient, do worse in school, begin to truly dislike their parents...this kind of 'hatred' can even build up over the years until the preschooler evolves into a abusive kid.

Answer 9

When you pressure a young child with academics you hinder his ability to develop a love for learning.  Young children naturally learn, all at a different pace. There is no need to foster insecurities in young children by setting rigid standards for what they are to know at what point. This changes as they get older, and an expectation of good grades has its place, just not for a preschooler.