Saturday, January 15, 2011

Little Kids Want to Learn

It was at the TCM centre that we first heard about the GD Baby Program from a mother we met there. This got me really interested, despite many people saying little children should just be having pure fun and play. Let formal learning happen when it should when they are older. Why stuff the poor kids with so much education at such a young age? It kills their interest in learning when they go to school. Being a none-the-wiser parent, I was tempted to subscribe to this 'doctrine.' Yet, somehow, I feel something inherently unsound about this 'doctrine.' Is it really true? What if it isn't? What if my child really wants and loves to learn?

Well, I can only test out one of these schools of thought. After all, parenthood is all about trial and error. Sometimes, if it doesn't work out, we can try another way of doing it. For instance, if a one brand of diapers doesn't work for my son, I find other brands till there's no leakage and he feels comfortable in it.

But for this topic on letting children learn when they are young, we shall see. For now, I want to subscribe to the benefits of teaching Junior while he's young. Little kids want to learn.

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