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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WAY too many structured activities.

Developmentally, toddlers don't need that kind and amount of structure to learn.[/quote]

Four a week is too many?  I disagree 100%.  Toddlers do need socialization and learn to sit and participate.  That is the entire point of the classes.  I do a lot of classes with my toddler, too.  It adds structure to our day and like OP, I do them in the morning.  In the afternoons, DD and I run around the park or go swimming.  [/quote]

No they don't.

Toddlers do not need that kind of structure to learn. It is developmentally inappropriate.  Mom might need those classes for socialization but the toddler does not.[/quote]

NP here and you are wrong, PP.  They do need it and it is absolutely developmentally appropriate.

- signed a Preschool Teacher who can tell the poor little souls who have never been to a structured class and have mothers who believe as you do.  [/quote]

At 19 months? Some of them can learn to sit still and some can't. They can all learn it later, at 2 or 3 or 4.[/quote]

Preschool teacher again.  Why make your child miserable by being the only one in a preschool class at 3 who doesn't know how to sit and listen?  Why would you do that purposely to your child?

Take them out and take them to structured activities/classes!  Ask any preschool teacher and we can tell you what child has and what child has not had that exposure.  [/quote]
Approval of preschool teachers is not a developmental indicator. It doesn't matter what you can and cannot tell. What matters is what is right for that particular child.[/quote]

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