Is Your Toddler Too Young For Math Bootcamp?

PORTER RANCH (CBS) — Just how young is too young for a child to begin a hardcore academic regimen?

Many parents now start children as young as three years old on intense biweekly math and reading drills.

Kumon, which bills itself as the nation's largest tutoring chain, has introduced Junior Kumon for children ages 2-5. They boast of young pupils doing 3-digit multiplication at 5 years old, and long division by the third grade.

In the past year, Junior Kumon's enrollment has jumped by thirty percent nationwide. Some suggest these numbers are a response to parental anxiety, and competition to get kids into the best schools as early as kindergarten.

Still one professional fears programs like these are too much too soon…