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Enrichment or not? Hubby says its in the genes.

Mummy got wind that one of her students who 'under-performed' (in her parents' words) during PSLE got accepted into Victoria Junior College at Secondary 2. (Her PSLE aggregate was above 255 by the way) What was disturbing to Mummy was that this student has had absolutely NO tuition or enrichment of any sort from young. To top that, she didn't even attend childcare. She has full-time working parents and about half a dozen siblings to share the pie of attention. YET, she can be outstanding academically. Hubby says its genetically programmed in the individual. Convinced? Well.....

After almost 2 years of attending lessons with BERRIES, Donovan finally decided to call it quits. He had been crying whenever we bring him to his lessons and after some probing he revealed that a particular boy was disturbing him. Besides mentioning that the boy had pushed him, he didn't give more examples to support his aversion towards attending lessons. Persuasion and coersion didn't motivate him either. He is also willing to give up the toy which he wanted when Mummy used it as a bait to get him to continue his lessons. Mummy suggested returning to Woodlands CC BERRIES which Donovan came from but Don rejected too. So what does it say?

This pic was taken at the former BERRIES @ WDLDs CC
and Don was happy as the class size was small then.

So BERRIES is out, and Mummy suggested trying some art classes to balance him up but Donovan rejected as well. When Mummy thought all was lost, Donovan actually reassured Mummy that he liked the idea of studying with Mummy around and indeed, he is more on-task and consistent when Mummy sits down with him. So Daddy suggested that Mummy should stay home to look after them full time. If Mummy is home full-time, it'll mean one income less but it'll also convert to some savings if we can cut down on enrichment classes. So which is a better strategy?