Kumon classes

crvs

All,

I was having a friendly chat with my colleague and she asked me whether I would send my little one in future to Kumon or similar other lessons like other Asian parents.

I answered her "NO" and suggested that I would better let my little one learn to read and write properly and also coach them to think critically.

I wanted my child to enjoy the child hood and have fun with learning.

In most of the Asian countries there is lot of stress on excelling in the education and more aggressive with lessons content than here.

But this is all changing in Asian countries too..

What do you guys think?

Vidhya

double_mummy

i know quite a few kids who have gone to kumon only one of them was asian

i think there is a lot more pressure on kids in general especially with higher achieving parents of any ethnicity my son (year 2) has just had SATS and there were a couple of parents who had their kids doing intensive home tutoring for them and other parents who couldnt have cared less and some in the middle

for some people children are just another level to compete on - remember the whole well *insert stupid name* was walking when she was 20 minutes old had written a symphony by 3 months and was an olympic runner at 6 months. oh your child has just said their first word how sweet *stupid name* was reciting Shakespeare at 20 weeks and on her 12 week scan she was in 2nd position and doing jetes

rachiibell

What are kumon classes? Never heard of them before!

I do agree with you about children being children and having fun though. My parents were both rather sporty and would push me and my sister to do well at sport (neither of us have a sporting bone in our body!) and completely took all the fun out of going swimming or throwing a ball around in the garden because they were getting annoyed that we were doing it "wrong".

pm04gn

crvs wrote: »

All,

I was having a friendly chat with my colleague and she asked me whether I would send my little one in future to Kumon or similar other lessons like other Asian parents.

I answered her "NO" and suggested that I would better let my little one learn to read and write properly and also coach them to think critically.

I wanted my child to enjoy the child hood and have fun with learning.

In most of the Asian countries there is lot of stress on excelling in the education and more aggressive with lessons content than here.

But this is all changing in Asian countries too..

What do you guys think?

Vidhya

Several of my siblings did Kumon maths and it put them way ahead of their peers particularly at mental arithmetic. It's only 10mins or so a day plus a short visit to the centre once a week. Hardly aggressive.

I will certainly be sending my children when they reach school age. It's an excellent skill to have.

74jax

I had no idea whatsoever Kumon was just for Asian, my DD went and she was well prepared for when they covered this in class.

So the Op knows, it's not a class as such, its a fun way of learning important messages and skills to 'help' when taught in school. It's a different way to what a school may teach.

There was certainly in our case, no stress, quite the opposite.

VJsmum

My son is doing something similar to Kumon. He is 15 and has been going since he was 12, because he just couldn't do maths

Whilst he will never be a genius at it, he should get at least a c in GCSE Now. The 10 minutes a day thing is perfect to persuade him to do it.

Therefore it wasn't so much to get him ahead, but to catch him up.

Nicki

Yes we did kumon maths with DS1 and we aren't Asian and although we live in a very Asian populated area, neither were most of the students.

DS did it for about 18 months at KS1 and is now about to start GCSEs consistently at the top of the top set. It gave him a real love of maths as well as the skills he needed to be very good at it.

Noonar

My daughter did Kumon maths for several months - she hated it, its caused family stress and I now regret putting her through it. Children need to be children, to have fun and learn at their own pace. My daughter did get her GCSE maths - with the help of a tutor, which in my opinion was a far better way to spend my money that Kumon.

meritaten

I think it depends on the individual child - some will benefit, others will hate it.

pollypenny

I recently saw an advert for a Kumon franchise. It not mrntion any teaching qualification.