Our Kids…their Kids!
I said urban India, because I think this concept of sending a child to a Montessori school or a play home is still very nascent in rural India; where providing good education to a child is a big deal by itself! In fact, even few years back there was not so much hype in India regarding playschools. It is in the last few years that this inclination of sending an infant to a playschool has proliferated by alarming proportions. Even if the child feels threatened by a totally new atmosphere at a very tender age, we, as parents, force them to go and behave in exactly the same way as 20 other children are behaving. There is no nurturing of personal talents, with teachers trying to spoon feed them with the same set of nursery rhymes and coloring books…which again will help them conform to the set pattern of a regular school later. This obsession with academics is reaching such alarming proportions that instead of school being a place that every small kid should look forward to, it’s becoming a den of sorts.
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Having a Baby