We are on the Reading Eggs trial and Grace loved it and seemed to be learning from it - until she discovered the Playroom. Now she wants to just use the playroom, and we are reluctant to “waste” her screen time on something that doesn’t seem to have any real value. On the other hand, she doesn’t currently distinguish between “work” and play - I don’t want to plant the idea that the lessons aren’t fun but the playroom is by insisting she does some of the lessons first.

How do you manage your child’s time on REading Eggs - it’s the first time we’ve used a scheme like this, so we’re floundering a bit. Also really hating the constant refrain of “good job” and “you’re so clever” - really doesn’t sit well with our style of not using rewards and punishments.

Angie

Leave them to do it however they want here Both of mine will play Reading Eggs or Numberjacks Mission to Learn daily then neglect them for months in favour of completely non-educational games (like Angry Birds and Mario Karts in DS case :-s) They will then go back to them in their own time. We are unschoolers and I find that it all balances out in the end. Let her have her fill of the play room and she’ll probably go back to the lessons. Push it and she’ll rebel (from your other posts she sounds a sspirited as mine, particularly my DD1 LOL) Just my opinion though Completely agree about the “good job” stuff though!

Beck xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Another vote for leave her to it.  Not only for the reasons you already mention in your post, but also because I find Reading Eggs is easy to blast through and not really retain a great deal.  I find the slower they work through it the more they seem to retain.  If Jenna does six lessons one day, she probably remembers less than one whole lesson’s worth. 

(Morgan has faked her way through the whole first map - she can’t *actually* identify more than a handful of letters but she can keep clicking stuff til something works!)

Alice likes the playroom too but will happily do one lesson or part of a lesson and then go to the playroom.  She asked us to help to learn to read and that’s what I remind her of.  She seems happy with that

We don’t restrict time she is allowed on there though and let her do it at her own pace.
sarie