Is it really essential to attend montessori clasees?
@luckymichelle (170)
Singapore
March 10, 2010 3:28am CST
It has become an increasingly popular trend for parents to send their young toddlers to attend expensive enrichment classes and development programmes which promise to bring brillian results for the young ones. Many parents are thus anxious to enrol their children into the best institutions regardless of the fees these schools may charge. From the parents' viewpoint, it is definitely well worth the money their children to such expensive classes as so to allow their children to grasp as much knowledge as possible. But is it really essential that only through attending expensive enrichment classes can the children gain all the knowledge? Or as parents they should spend quality time bonding with their children and at the same time inculcating important moral values to their children just as important to ensure develpoment of their children's fullest potential?
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@hvedra (1619)
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10 Mar 10
What? You want parents to spend time with their children, interact with them, teach them values and help them develop? Surely the best thing is to pack them off to learn from strangers so they aren't at home annoying you?
sorry, feeling sarcastic this morning.
I can understand parents being picky over where they send their kids - some don't give a hoot as long as the kids are out from under their feet - but a lot seem to think they have no ability to provide a lot of that education and guidence themselves. At no point should anyone assume that their child is getting educated and guided unless they are very actively involved in the provision of it.
@luckymichelle (170)
• Singapore
10 Mar 10
Well isnt that the most fundamental role parents should play in raising their children? To spend time with them and teaching them the right values and providing them with appropriate guidance? To push this responsibility to teachers is certainly not the best method to raise a child. In any case I feel parents should still be solely responsible for the proper upbringing of their children and schools should just be treated as a supplementary avenue for children to gain knowledge.
