There are plenty of learning centres in Singapore for preschool education and early childhood education, and they are typically well run and have beneficial classes. However parents and their child sometimes do fail to get the most of the preschool education leading to resentment over the cost and time put in. The factors are complicated and intertwined.
Firstly children's needs are as diverse as fingerprints. While one toddler needs to sit silently to understand a course, another needs to play. While one child can learn by picking gradually through things at his fingertips, another needs to emotionally confirm and seek approval from his father or mother. It is crucial that you preview your children through the totally different programs to find out what fits him or her, rather than what some other parents say.
Secondly, there is only so much information a child can take in if the study course is too educational or inflexible, or if he or she is challenged by overly stressful demand on his or her attention. Even play can become taxing if the anticipation of good results is always in the air, or if the program is too test-oriented or too unsubtle. Children are not prepared to manage with that and are more likely to turn off or create an undesirable feeling of learning.
Thirdly, many programs lead with marginalization of parents. There is no replacement for parents in the lives of our children, and the early years are no exemption. Preschool education and early childhood development that assume themselves to be the end-all of learning experience do parents no favour but young children potential harm.
Fourthly, preschool courses that are too minimum in course length or too specific cause important neural patterns and connections to be flushed out too swiftly. While providing an initial boost, plenty of courses if joined just sporadically or once or twice do not lead to long term improvement unless parents maintain and build on these results.