The very first issue of Competitive Parent Magazine was published in www.getyourchildintogat.com. My goal with CPM was to refine problem solving skills using Algebra and make some headway into writing skills, with some chores thrown in. That and my kids were getting older. It's one thing to teach the cognitive skills needed to pass the GAT test, but quite another to prepare for long term success. Specifically it takes more writing on my part. The core skill set is still the same whether the child is 4 or 14.
This issue transitions from math to philosophy. There are few high paying careers in STEM, but every large company has a CEO. Can you take a child's mastery of problem solving skills and turn them lose on everything else? I first approached philosophy as a bridge between math and writing. I now think of it as a bridge between thinking about math and thinking about everything else.
I laid the groundwork for philosophy by 6 months of writing exercises. Writing got pretty boring after the first month, so we switched to reading a page or five of something interesting followed by 30 minutes of discussion. I turned to philosophy when I ran out of other topics to discuss.
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