Huh? Yes, the more skills the better. Your post doesn&#x27;t exactly read as an attack on that assumption, but as a criticism on the method of teaching.<p>I agree, both the learning experience and the acquired skills matter. What&#x27;s often overlooked is that every child develops at their own pace, and the skills progression taught in schools is based on both normative ideals and descriptive &quot;modal&quot; pace. Offering a child new material that they &quot;should not be learning yet&quot; is not a crime, nor an offense to the child, nor a criticism on other parenting methods (or other children, for that matter).<p>Not to mention that skills development doesn&#x27;t occur across a single line. As an example, a child of a friend of mine is now almost two years old, and still vocalizes at most two syllables. Yet she&#x27;s able to comprehend (and execute) very complicated sentences and commands, in two languages. Still, she&#x27;s now officially labeled a &quot;deficient&quot; child, with all the counselling and monitoring that that entails...