No. Allowing a child to direct their own development is a weird and damaging strategic fallacy that is making the rounds.
Child development is absolutely dependent on how much language the child hears and reads, and is measured by child language development milestones that are waymarked by age down to the month.
Learning to read earlier should serve to maximize IQ. This is bog standard child development science. Learning to read will not hinder playtime nor social skills.
You likely can't talk to a child enough. Consider all children to have a language input deficit that is highly relevant to development. What reading does is allow the child to self ameliorate that deficit as soon as possible.
Talk and read to children as much as they can stand, starting in the womb if one wishes. Teach them to read as early as possible. No one actively should be trying to hinder child cognitive development so that children ostensibly better fit in socially. That's not how social skills work, besides.
Child development is absolutely dependent on how much language the child hears and reads, and is measured by child language development milestones that are waymarked by age down to the month.
Learning to read earlier should serve to maximize IQ. This is bog standard child development science. Learning to read will not hinder playtime nor social skills.
You likely can't talk to a child enough. Consider all children to have a language input deficit that is highly relevant to development. What reading does is allow the child to self ameliorate that deficit as soon as possible.
Talk and read to children as much as they can stand, starting in the womb if one wishes. Teach them to read as early as possible. No one actively should be trying to hinder child cognitive development so that children ostensibly better fit in socially. That's not how social skills work, besides.