One of the most effective ways for kids to learn is through play. That’s why there are lots of playgroups for kids. A lot of parents send their kids to playgroup for social interaction and for learning. Before I sent my kids to a kindy, I sent them to playgrous. The first playgroup my son went to was Gymboree in Bangsar. Although it was very inconvenient for us because we had to drive for one hour to go there and the playgroup only lasts 45 minutes, we still pursued it because we noticed that even though he wasn’t joining much, he showed a lot of improvements.
But later we discovered there is Tumble Tots in Subang Parade. So instead of driving all the way to Bangsar Village, we started sending our kids to Tumble Tots. Tumble Tots is much much cheaper.
Now that my kids are in kindy, we stopped sending them to playgroups.
In our new house now, we set up our study room in such a way that kids would enjoy the room. We actually bought some kiddy chairs from Ikea. They’re not like one of those classroom chairs but it will do.
Now the kids’ hanging out place is our study room. My boy does his homeworks there and my girl would sit by him and act like she’s doing her homework too. It’s fun seeing them doing like that.
As parents, we work really hard to give our kids a good environment for learning. Not only the kids are encouraged to study, they will have fun as well.