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[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]

Oh please.

A two year old? Sure. Three year old? Most certainly.

But an eighteen to nineteen month old toddler still in diapers? Not necessary or developmemtally appropriate. They are still in the parallel play phase. Structured group classes is not how toddlers learn.[/quote]

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