Early education — is it working?

I recently has received a question from a dad.. “…so, does the preschool show any improvement on your child ability?”

It took me a while before answered that question. I never thought to analyze the effectiveness of early education on my child. I spend my time worrying about endless separation anxiety. I thought that it’s an improvement that he could actually being able to be separated by his family or nanny. To be able to communicate with other with his limited language ability and to be independent.

But as I told the man, that I saw that as an improvement. He replies ” well, my daughter seem has no problem with separation. She tries holiday program, and never cry from the beginning of school and seems to enjoy the activity..”

Ooops.. I forgot.. that every child is different. What I thought will happen to every child, is actually not. A child is a unique human being. They has their own strength, weakness, interest and emotion control.

So.. how should we analyze whether preschool will do any good to our child? is it true that if we send them to school as early as possible, will make them a better learner?

Email VS Twitter and Facebook

Love the writing..   It explain a lot with what happen in the net lately.. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html

Why Email No Longer Rules…

And what that means for the way we communicate

Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.

Hubungan “Susahnya menjadi orang tua” dan “masa depan bangsa”

Buat yang sudah menjadi ibu/ayah, pasti pernah bertanya, “gimana seh buat anak saya menurut”. Kita selalu memberikan yang terbaik untuk anak ini, tapi dia malah berteriak, menolak, sungguh sulit diatur!!  Sudah dibela-belain buat makanan tersehat dan terlezat, eh dia malah mengunci mulutnya, atau yang lebih parah lagi, kalau piringnya ditepak, atau malah dimuntahkan kembali.

Saya sendiri sempat hampir stress dengan hal ini. Mulai dari bayi, disaat kita sulit sekali menebak arti dari tangisannya yang tak kunjung selesai, padahal kita baru saja mau beristirahat. Lalu ketika dia mulai mengerti bahwa dirinya terpisah dari orang lain, dan mulai memiliki kehendak sendiri, dia menolak semua yang kita minta. Diminta makan, dia malah lari. Diminta jangan lari-lari, dia malah lari, loncat, sampai akhirnya jatuh. Diminta untuk tidur, dia menolak, menangis.

Sejuta masalah antara orang tua dan anaknya sebenernya bukan hal yang baru. Kalau kita bertanya ke orang tua kita, mereka pasti memiliki pengalaman yang sama sewaktu membesarkan kita. Jadi, apa yang salah?