At the point when Ryan is going to turn 2, I have yet to look into finding a suitable pre-school for him. Of late, there have been a few more reasons and push factors for us to consider sending him to school soon.
My only contention about packing him off to a pre-school is the health factor. We all know that once a child attends school, he or she is bound to be exposed to more illnesses because of the exposure to more people.
Apart from that, I am quite keen to explore this early start to a pre-school for Ryan. Simply because I think he feels lonely and needs children company and he’s bound to make friends there. He’s always stuck with us adults and though he does have other cousins his age, he doesn’t get to meet them often at all.
Furthermore, lately he’s been asking where his friends are and I don’t quite know how to answer. He even grabs his toy Elmo and Cookie Monster and says they are his friends! That breaks my heart, to think that he has resorted to claiming his toys to be his friends.
I’ve been recommended a few pre-schools to get Ryan started but honestly, I haven’t done my own research on these recommendations. I know those who recommended the schools to me have good intentions, but at that time I thought it was a little early to get started.
When I was schooling, I didn’t even look very much in advance to find a suitable university not to mention do proper GMAT prep, so how hard can it be to look for a pre-school? As it turns out, it may even be harder than finding a good university!
Now that I’m beginning to toy with this idea of sending Ryan to pre-school, these recommendations are coming in very handy. At least they’re a start of some schools for me to find out more on. Otherwise, I think I would be quite at a loss to get started on where to find these pre-schools!
What about you? When did you begin to scout for suitable schools for your kids? If you haven’t already started like me, when do you intend to start?
Also, those who have recommendations and thoughts or ideas to share about toddler’s schooling issues, please share your thoughts. We all would appreciate learning more from other parents out there.
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I am kiasu la, started to find schools when I was told that they needed to go to school!!! haha.
But I started with Gymboree so that he is comfortable with other kids, then progressed to the current pre-school. All is working well and I will be sending my girl to the pre-school when she turns 2.
Germs and sickness wise, good to get them exposed soon, builts their immunity faster. Ryan was sick quite a bit in the first 6 months, but then, they started to bump each other with their virus and bacteria that they recover really well! You just need to be ready with a trip to the doctor’s.
my elder one started at three. my dh and i freaked out when we went to this one particular place and we saw how mature those other kids were at the kindy…doing colouring and simple math (and we thought that our kid who was three at that time was too young to grasp the basic math!), while ours was at home…busy watching barney & friends! so, it was an one-the-spot decision to enrol our kid there…sounds like kiasu, uh. it was the wisest decision indeed. we saw our lil’ boy transformed from a lil’ caterpillar into a lovely butterfly by the time he left the kindy at the end of last year.
my younger one started off at the age of two years four months
We’re late starters. I didn’t send my girl to preschool till age 6 and my boy went at age 5. Everyone gasped and say “What? So late?” Even grandpas and grandmas gasped. Hahaha. And we didn’t start hunting for schools till very late as well but once the hunt is done for the first child, the second one is always easier. Just go to bro/sis’s school. Hehe.
Busy Bee, I suppose I’d have to get rid of the fear of illnesses…but I just can’t help feeling helpless whenever he gets sick. Very frightened from the last episode when he got ill. But I think I shouldn’t compromise development too huh.
Ai-Ling, it must be so satisfying and you feel like you’ve done the right thing huh. It does look like the 2nd one will always start pre-school even earlier than the 1st after you’ve seen the transformation.
Mumsgather, I was thinking of being a late starter also. It looks like I will be on my way to change my mind