Both ChiefKiasu and breguet make a great point. It’s about spending time with your child, and giving them experiences. They are like sponges, and they do absorb without necessarily understanding - because what they’re doing is laying down the patterns they’ll use later to make sense of the world.


That means the learning habits they’ll need to master in the future.

That’s why I get so mad with methods that flash meaningless stuff at kids. If we are going to do the good kiasu thing and give kids our time and our effort, much better to make learning - esp reading - fun and an important part of their lives. Help them interact with others, experience numbers as reality, not as abstract symbols. The key is to establish good habits which they can use life-long - the reason they absorb everything at young age, is so that they can learn how to do things for later. - Not much call for flash-cards in the real world!!!

I agree with mumwgals. The most important thing is to get them interested in music - by making it fun.


Young kids get excited by songs and rhymes - esp. with lots of actions. Make instruments and let them experiment. Time to get formal later - when they ‘can’t live without it’ - otherwise all the hard work and drill is boring and puts them off.

The world doesn’t need any more 8 y.o. concert pianists.