[crazynick4]

I was spelling basic words and reading by the time I was four. So was my mom around that age, and from talking to her I wasn't exactly exceptional, many kids did back then (this was 1990 for me, in Russia, regular people didn't have computers at all).

[jsilence]

I had my struggles with written language througout my whole school carreer, (but not dylectic level struggles). Yet I went from engineering into academics with 20 years of software development in between, where I am researching and teaching now with the firm belief that I have a much more concise grasp on language and being able to express complex thoughts much better than any student.

Let children be children. Let them play freely. Don't push anything onto them. If they love learning reading, ok. If they don't, that's ok too and practically meaningless for their future prospect.