[noahmbarr]

Is prioritizing developing these skills good for a child’s overall development?

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I found that reading easily and quickly left me more hours in the day to work at skills that are not easily conveyed via literacy.

I could easily be biased though: much of my adult life has involved reading large quantities of material and writing much shorter quantities afterwards; if my life were not text-centric I might've viewed the early start and subsequent advantage as a waste?

[watwut]

They are two years old. Their reading speed as adults ability is unlikely to be affected

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Coincidentally, the age when my mother taught me to read, via manual repetition (first flashcards, then books, then my own library card)

(being in the habit of reading for years before you get there also makes elementary school far more bearable, as you have time free to think your own thoughts while the rest of the class is still finishing the assigned reading)