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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Honestly, I cannot believe that we have arrived at a place where society thinks that it is "necessary" for babies and young toddlers to learn structure. By all means, do a class or playgroup or otherwise get your kid socializing and participating but 4 a week is mental and so is the idea that you "must" do this. I have three kids, and the oldest is 7, and the youngest is 1.5 and we did a class each starting around 2 and I skipped half the times. I felt the playgroups were more fun and during summer we just relaxed at a pool on a daily basis - kids know how to swim, play, take turns.

If you really need more "evidence" look at the growing body of studies that show that children NEED lots and lots of unstructured time - way past the age where we think they do now. There's mounting evidence that even kindergarteners do better with mostly unstructured time. We felt like an hour a week was very sufficient and never did more than one activity at a time. If your baby is saying "outside" take him / her outside! That doesn't mean "to the library." Let him / her sit in the grass at a park and meet dogs or look at ducks or birds whatever.

Silly [/quote]

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