Is Your Child Ready for School?: A Parent's Guide to the Readiness Tests Required by Public and Private Schools

This is an excellent book for parents who need guidelines for teaching a preschool child some of the basics. Readiness tests are also included. My only concern is that this book seems to be written with the most academically gifted child in mind. My hope is that parents will use it to provide themselves with ideas for play and fun with their child rather than a measuring stick to negatively compare their child with the requirements suggested in this book. Not every four year old is interested in paper and pencil work or in reciting the alphabet. However, with an attitude of fun children seem to respond to just about any game their parents want to play. If the games in this book are well used a child would receive valuable parental attention as well as an introduction to settling down to use their small muscles and comprehending their first abstract ideas.