Hi....just my little thought about playgroup/N1. My daughter just turned 1 yr old and I've enrolled her to join playgroup since she's 8 mths old (baby gym only once a week). I've recently signed up for Woodland's wriggler class (for 12-18 mths)...and put on waiting list for their playgroup class (18mths - 2yrs 4 mths). I'm a working mom...I felt my daughter is wasting her time everyday wandering around at home with my helper. And when my helper is doing housework, she's put in playpen doing nothing...just put on some kids music for her to listen (I don't allow my helper to turn on TV). Even grandma came, no productive learning can be achieved as mostly she's just holding her instead of encouraging her to walk or read some books. Thus, I strongly recommend babies at least start to go to playgroup at 1 yr old...especially if both parents need to work and cannot take care of their own baby during the day. I found that day time she's most energetic and it's such a waste of not learning anything. After I returned home from work it's already night time, me & my husband would take her to supermarket or for a short walk, thus my baby look at the outside world only at night ( i don't allow my helper to bring her out alone). I realize this is not doing any good to her, so everyday at lunch time I'd go back home & spend 1/2 hr bringing her to small park close to home.
Sometimes my friends (without any children) will say to me it's putting too much pressure on children to go to school that early. But I'd say it's not going to school, they are in fact playing happily with other kids of their age. And my friends would say we're also brought up without joining any playgroup la. But pls be reminded...our world now is very different from the time when we're in our baby's age...a large % of mom needs to go to work and more & more families depend on helper to take care of their babies. At our times...we live together with our grandparents and our mothers stay home all the time! We always get more love & knowledge from our own mothers instead of helpers!
發表於 09-10-16 00:26
