With all those complaints about her restless and stubborn nature and poor fine motor skills...yesterday her teacher shared that Lakrishna got first position in drawing and GK in her class...Not that it sounds like an achievement for a small kid who should not be judged at such a tender age....but it has always been about me scoring as a mother on by guilt and satisfaction scales...and there is more to it which had been disturbing me since late...
Before I had admitted Lakrishna in her playschool when she was two...many friends and folks had told me not to do so as that might put her under pressure. This was incomprehensible and way too opinionated for me to understand. She was the only kid in her class who always used to be excited about going to school...thanks to her school for making her first school experience fun....But this fun was short-lived I guess. I had promised to myself that I'll never pressurize Lakrishna for her studies until she is five...but with all those complaints about her incomplete homework, comparisons with other kids notebooks...I ended up pressurizing her for "homework"...and suddenly "homework" became a dreaded word for her...at the age of three. I was loosing it....totally....and wait, there were exams too...
I knew Lakrishna was not lagging behind....her fine motor skills are evident on her room's walls and in precision with which she cuts her butterflies...only issue is she doesn't like doing "homework"...why?? because "homework" is not fun...and my "now" four years old kid wants everything fun...and I dont see anything wrong with it...
what bothers me is....even with schools pitching the word "fun" with their education system....they end up killing it....
what bothers me more is....when all her peers are conditioned to this pressurized way of life...will she be accustomed to the tag of being relatively "stubborn" and "mediocre" student in her class...
I only have one request to contemporary education system...please dont judge my baby till she is five....let her have fun with her play and with her education...
Before I had admitted Lakrishna in her playschool when she was two...many friends and folks had told me not to do so as that might put her under pressure. This was incomprehensible and way too opinionated for me to understand. She was the only kid in her class who always used to be excited about going to school...thanks to her school for making her first school experience fun....But this fun was short-lived I guess. I had promised to myself that I'll never pressurize Lakrishna for her studies until she is five...but with all those complaints about her incomplete homework, comparisons with other kids notebooks...I ended up pressurizing her for "homework"...and suddenly "homework" became a dreaded word for her...at the age of three. I was loosing it....totally....and wait, there were exams too...I knew Lakrishna was not lagging behind....her fine motor skills are evident on her room's walls and in precision with which she cuts her butterflies...only issue is she doesn't like doing "homework"...why?? because "homework" is not fun...and my "now" four years old kid wants everything fun...and I dont see anything wrong with it...
what bothers me is....even with schools pitching the word "fun" with their education system....they end up killing it....
what bothers me more is....when all her peers are conditioned to this pressurized way of life...will she be accustomed to the tag of being relatively "stubborn" and "mediocre" student in her class...
I only have one request to contemporary education system...please dont judge my baby till she is five....let her have fun with her play and with her education...
