Education
14 June 2011, 9:43 am · Education
By the time I was 3, I could read, thanks to my childhood habit of watching the same episode of Sesame Street twice a day as a pre-preschooler (the alphabet and word-and-picture flashcards my parents gave me certainly didn't hurt). When I entered kindergarten, I could already write in cursive and I was reading at a third- or fourth-grade level. All of this was attributable in no small part to Sesame Street; my parents wisely recognized its value as an educational tool, and they leveraged it to give me a boost in school. To this day I still love the...
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