Do you often find product mailers in your post boxes? We used to get plenty from housing developers and hypermarkets. So much so that most times they are unseen and simply dumped into the bins.
Lately there are a whole bunch of mailers for services in the area of children development and enrichment lessons. I would’ve thrown these out in the past too but I think now is the time I start to take notice of some of them.
Do you believe in sending your kids to all kinds of lessons? I know parents start their kids off to some fun lessons or classes as young as two years old. Most of them would start off with Gymboree or something similar. I have yet to start Ryan off on anything, actually, and am wondering if I’m depriving him of something. Do you think I am?
Anyway, as much as I think it’s good to let kids learn as many things as possible from a young age, I believe very much too that it should all be done in moderation. I do not wish to load his day full of lessons from one hour to the next the whole day through, so much so that his remaining free time will be spent at home trying to catch up on some given homework or practise on his musical instrument for his next class. I want him to enjoy his childhood as much as possible doing non-class stuff.
So whilst I may glance through some mailers and brochures to check out what interesting enrichment classes are out there, I won’t be all too hyped out about registering him for all things dumped into my mailbox. If I feel suffocated with just these mailers, imagine how Ryan would feel going to all these classes!
All kinds of classes seem to be mushrooming these days from the regular tuition classes to Kumon lessons to speech and drama too. Even tertiary education courses are getting more diversed these days if you noticed, people nowadays can do courses on drawing and developing animations for games to some specialised medical coding training courses too. What a world of difference to what we had during our time, the boring old stuff like accountancy, nursing, law school, business administration, etc.
So now, if I were to send him for one or two classes a week to have fun, which would you recommend? The key thing is really for him to make some friends, have lots of fun and whilst at it, learning a thing or two.
