Parents who have “coaches” come to their homes for preschoolers!!

[Anonymous]

I think it’s a great idea if the kids have fun.

[Anonymous]

If I were a “gymnastics” mom or a “dance” mom I could see myself doing this. Private lessons seem to be more about coaching and less about fun. But I’m not.

[Anonymous]

My 3 yr d has a gymnastics coach who comes to our house and it is fun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3 yr d has a gymnastics coach who comes to our house and it is fun!

Any equipment?

[Anonymous]

I only know of one instance of something like this, and it was a swim coach to teach their kids in their own pool. She said it was roughly the same cost as a class at the Y and much more convenient. Made sense to me.

[Anonymous]

Just so you know, OP, instructors willing to travel are the lowest quality instructors. It’s perfectly fine for little ones, but not for making significant advancement in the activity. For that students need to pay much more and travel to the teacher’s private studio or dojo. Washington Ballet, that Aikido dojo in Takoma Park, Children’s Chorus of Washington, Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra, the handful of top private studio in each instrument, etc...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 3 yr d has a gymnastics coach who comes to our house and it is fun!

Any equipment?

Mats and balance beam - she is just four.

And I totally agree that the lesser instructors are the ones that come to your house. Perfectly fine for DD now but we’ll have to move to a gym if she stays with it.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who has a “ball coach” come to her house and run her 2 and 3.5 yr old boys around the yard and teaches them “ball skills”. It’s actually great for her boys.

[Anonymous]

We didn't do this at 3 or 4, but starting at kindergarten, our strategy for keeping our weekday schedule sane AND delivering the activities we wanted was to keep them home-based as much as possible. We have two language teachers come to the house twice a week plus a music teacher once a week. It's actually very convenient and cuts down on the family stress. It also replicates the age-old education models for the UMC households when tutors came to the child instead of the other way.

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Anonymous wrote:
Just so you know, OP, instructors willing to travel are the lowest quality instructors. It’s perfectly fine for little ones, but not for making significant advancement in the activity. For that students need to pay much more and travel to the teacher’s private studio or dojo. Washington Ballet, that Aikido dojo in Takoma Park, Children’s Chorus of Washington, Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra, the handful of top private studio in each instrument, etc...

Only a minority of kids will enter these. Average teachers are perfectly fine for the rest.

[Anonymous]

Having a piano teacher come to your house is an American classic like apple pie. There is truly nothing DCUM won’t mount a class war over.

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Anonymous wrote:We didn't do this at 3 or 4, but starting at kindergarten, our strategy for keeping our weekday schedule sane AND delivering the activities we wanted was to keep them home-based as much as possible. We have two language teachers come to the house twice a week plus a music teacher once a week. It's actually very convenient and cuts down on the family stress. It also replicates the age-old education models for the UMC households when tutors came to the child instead of the other way.

Wasn’t it hard for your child to stay focused on language practice with all of his toys and books around? And don’t siblings interfere? I thought about having a music teacher come to the house, but it just sounds chaotic. I can totally imagine my six year old trying to sit at the piano while meanwhile my eight and nine year olds go tearing through the living room playing tag, and my four year old trying to play on the other end of the piano.
I would rather just go to the conservatory and camp out there for the evening while everyone takes lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We didn't do this at 3 or 4, but starting at kindergarten, our strategy for keeping our weekday schedule sane AND delivering the activities we wanted was to keep them home-based as much as possible. We have two language teachers come to the house twice a week plus a music teacher once a week. It's actually very convenient and cuts down on the family stress. It also replicates the age-old education models for the UMC households when tutors came to the child instead of the other way.

Wasn’t it hard for your child to stay focused on language practice with all of his toys and books around? And don’t siblings interfere? I thought about having a music teacher come to the house, but it just sounds chaotic. I can totally imagine my six year old trying to sit at the piano while meanwhile my eight and nine year olds go tearing through the living room playing tag, and my four year old trying to play on the other end of the piano.
I would rather just go to the conservatory and camp out there for the evening while everyone takes lessons.

No, we set them up in the living room with no distractions around. The teachers come after school when no siblings are around, but even if they were, believe me, I'd have them contained elsewhere. It would be, like, for an hour you are not allowed into the living room. It's not an imposition to do something else for an hour. Besides, your six-year old would have to figure out a way to practice at the piano, wouldn't he, with or without siblings. We just don't want to waste time driving to and fro.

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Did everyone lose track of the fact that the original post said this was for preschoolers? Everyone started talking about afterschool lessons aand tutoring nd sure, it doesn't seem that odd to have a violin teacher or math tutor come to your house. But a preschooler? What does a preschooler need tutoring in? Or a private lesson? Like a preschooler needs private gymnastics lessons. Just take the kid to a playground. I thought the most important part of a "class" for a preschooler was the social aspect of it -- learning to be part of a group, following directions in a group setting, being around peers, being used to a new environment. None of which you get in a private lesson.

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Anonymous wrote:Did everyone lose track of the fact that the original post said this was for preschoolers? Everyone started talking about afterschool lessons aand tutoring nd sure, it doesn't seem that odd to have a violin teacher or math tutor come to your house. But a preschooler? What does a preschooler need tutoring in? Or a private lesson? Like a preschooler needs private gymnastics lessons. Just take the kid to a playground. I thought the most important part of a "class" for a preschooler was the social aspect of it -- learning to be part of a group, following directions in a group setting, being around peers, being used to a new environment. None of which you get in a private lesson.

It's not wild to have language lessons for a 4-year old, and it's normal to have basic instrument instruction at this age as well.

No, the most important aspect of the class is to acquire new skills or new knowledge.