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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most of it is a waste of money. If YOU, the parent, think it would be fun to take your kid, meet other parents, etc, do it! But it's like decorating the nursery - it's for you, not for them. Nothing wrong with that, though.

Two possible exceptions:

1) Swimming. At some point, that's a safety issue, and I think if you wait too long (until age 5 or later) your kid may be scared to dunk his head, etc. So I think this can be helpful earlier as a foundation. We start around age 2, that's probably earlier than you need, at that point it's more for us (see above; my husband was a swimmer), just with one session in the winter. I would think by age 4, though this would be important for safety reasons.

2) Exposure to group care. Our kids have a nanny, so they're use to one on one/one on two attention. Our oldest starts PK3 in the fall, so we're planning to sign him up for a short soccer session this summer just so he's had some exposure to this before PK starts.[/quote]

Yeah--ours had a little more exposure to other kids and settings because they were in nannyshares at another house (my two kids are too far apart to share a  nanny with each other)--but I found group classes good for getting them used to being around a dozen other kids before they started Pre K. [/quote]

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