All About Right Brain Training
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Ed1975:
Hi Ed1975,Hi,
My child has been attending My Little Genius for the past 5 wks. So far, I like what I see and my child who is 2 yrs plus seems to be enjoying the activities. It is still too early to tell whether my child is benefiting as it has only been 5 weeks. Most important to me is he enjoys it.
My older child who is now 5 yrs old had attended SM for 1.5 yrs before I stopped him last yr. I am very unhappy abt the way I was treated when I was there. Think they are getting a little too arrogant although my child did benefitted from the program.
From what I can see, both SM and my little genius are doing similiar things, brain stimulaation. The thing that I like abt my little genius is that it is a bilingual programme and the materials are nicer and they do have some added activities. I also like the fact that they are not doing ESP. I am not comfortable with ESP. The teachers in my little genius is also nice and the staff are friendly.
You can call them to book a preview session to know more.
Cheers.
Thx u 4 sharing.
I'm glad to hear that yr child is enjoying My Little Genius program.
Hope you don't mind sharing with me some questions that i'm curious about....
How does the bilingual program help the children?
Will they get confuse to be learning so many languages at such a young age?
What do you think is a good age to start?
Cheers! :celebrate:
CuriousDaddy -
Hi Micollh,
I was not treated very well by the admin staff. Had also seen and spoke to the founder for a short while. I feel feel good talking to her. Same sense of arrogance. Don’t want my child to be in a sch lead by a person I am totaly not comfortable with.Teacher still ok but changed teacher and new teacher don’t seem to be properly trained. Oh, I was in TPY. Anyway, that’s in the past. Good for you u got a ok teacher.
Most impt my child is enjoying the time at mylittlegenius and alot of the activities are similar. Will see how it goes. -
Ed1975:
Ic. Thanks for sharing.Hi Micollh,
I was not treated very well by the admin staff. Had also seen and spoke to the founder for a short while. I feel feel good talking to her. Same sense of arrogance. Don't want my child to be in a sch lead by a person I am totaly not comfortable with.Teacher still ok but changed teacher and new teacher don't seem to be properly trained. Oh, I was in TPY. Anyway, that's in the past. Good for you u got a ok teacher.
Most impt my child is enjoying the time at mylittlegenius and alot of the activities are similar. Will see how it goes. -
Hi Curiousdaddy,
It might be good for you to book a preview session with them as they conduct previeww session regularly in the centre. They should be a ble to answer your qn. I am not a professional in this aspect. Think you can check out their website http://www.mylittlegenius.com.sg to book a session.
I like bilingual as my experience with my elder child is that he was not exposed to chinese and is now quite adverse to spaeking chinese. All his enrichment was in english. I don't want the same to happen to my younger one. So if there is an brain stimulation centre that can also expose my younger one to chinese language, why not? My younger one just need more exposure as I believe their lang ability depends on what they had been exposed to since young. Don't want to make the same mistake as elder one.
My younger one has learned some simple chinese words since attending the mylittlegenius class. When he see the chinese teacher, he automatically call her lao shi and the english teacher, teacher. So I think he knows that she is a chinese teacher and should speak to her in mandarian. At least this is what I see for a start which I think is great!
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Thx Ed1975!
Will book for a Preview and see how it goes!
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Ed1975:
Hi Ed1975,Hi Curiousdaddy,
It might be good for you to book a preview session with them as they conduct previeww session regularly in the centre. They should be a ble to answer your qn. I am not a professional in this aspect. Think you can check out their website http://www.mylittlegenius.com.sg to book a session.
I like bilingual as my experience with my elder child is that he was not exposed to chinese and is now quite adverse to spaeking chinese. All his enrichment was in english. I don't want the same to happen to my younger one. So if there is an brain stimulation centre that can also expose my younger one to chinese language, why not? My younger one just need more exposure as I believe their lang ability depends on what they had been exposed to since young. Don't want to make the same mistake as elder one.
My younger one has learned some simple chinese words since attending the mylittlegenius class. When he see the chinese teacher, he automatically call her lao shi and the english teacher, teacher. So I think he knows that she is a chinese teacher and should speak to her in mandarian. At least this is what I see for a start which I think is great!
Hope I answered your qns.
Thank you for linking me to the website and asking me to go for the preview at My Little Genius. Didn't expect to get so much knowledge out of the 1 hour spend there!
It was a very insightful talk.
Have a good overview of why we should start our children early. Initially I thought it was just a kiasu mentality... However after the preview talk, i find the person making a lot of sense... And never occurred to me that being kiasu for my child at his early age also coincide with his right brain development. So glad i'm kiasu at the right timing! :boogie:
I also got a few tips on how to get young children to read!
Just curious, the person mentioned children can easily be trained on their Photographic Memory. How is your child doing in this area?
Btw, I've registered my child to start on the program next term!
Looking forward to attend the class with my son! :dancing:
Cheers!
CuriousDaddy -
We had signed up our boy for Schida after attending their impressive sales presentation. We had spent a lot of money to buy their training materials. They also use Glenn Doman’s cards for training. Parents are expected to train their own kids on a daily basis. They recruit young fresh graduates to train them as trainers. We did not see much difference after our boy attended the program for a year and had discontinued it.
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i also sent my child to Shichida, but discontinued after sometime … don’t see much results in my child. Very ex - $750 per Term, almost $75 per lesson.
now i send my child for abacus. Better ! at least can see that she calculate fast. -
that time, they held their sales talk and presentation at the DBS auditorium. So many parents went. Their sales tactic was impressive!
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my girl has been with SM for 2 years plus and i can see result in her memory esp in instant memory and also recital .. i can also see our classmates who (1 year) before are not doing anything special in class till now, they can recite the LM and also able to do instant memory all correct each time..
one thing i noticed/observe, parents' role.. perservere and patience with our kids, dun expect our child to be able to do superly well once enrol in SM.. it takes time.. and usually, the result wont be obvious before they turn 3 plus.. i was asking my DH the same question, should we stop ? but lucky thing my DH perservere.. and im happy we did continue and now, i really see the \"hard work\" we have put thru..
money wise, it's well spent.. as it's onlt at this stage that we can do this little bit for them, after that, we cannot reverse to this age to train them in this area. my opinion.
anyway, just choose the right brain class that u r comfortable.
to me, SM is my right choice. gather feedback from frens and all on the class before enrol, believe in the method and not by sales tactic. then u r on the right track