When I was a preschool teacher I noticed that kids started going to school as early as 2 years old. At one point I wanted that for my li'l boy. I wanted all the activities being offered and I wanted to start him at the youngest age possible. Good thing my husband was there to halt me at times.
There are still times when I want that for my li'l girl but I know now how to assess activities based on her strengths, weaknesses and personality traits.
I don't want everything for her. I just want what's best for her.
I want her to have fun, but I don't her staying at home staring at gadgets all day too, and as much as I want to play and teach my kids myself, it doesn't always happen that way.
So I enrolled her at a playgroup in Habits of the Mind where she'll be exposed to fixing herself up to go out to an activity that is hers alone, a little bit of play, a little bit of interacting and a little bit of learning. A little bit of everything for li'l girl who is independent and seeking to do things and make friends.
You
are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.
What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around
all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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