What A Child Needs..
September 26th, 2010 | 
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Leila* was a typical 4 year-old little girl when I handled her during the summer of last year. She is a lively child, very talkative, very pretty and really polite. I like her and all of us teachers in the center like her.
Despite her talkative nature, she is smart and so learns easily. My only problem with Leila was that she gets too sleepy at the middle of the session. There was even one time that she practically fell asleep.
I talked to her mom and told her about it. I found out then that Leila wakes up at 5:30 to prepare for her ‘modeling session’, after that comes her ‘ballet lesson’. From ballet she will then go to our center for her ‘reading lesson’ with me. After that she will go to ‘swimming lesson’, then finally goes home. EVERY DAY.
I was speechless. I wanted so much to remind the mom that Leila is a child, she gets exhausted and that she needs to rest. But mom’s facial expression was hard, even for a teacher like myself, to penetrate, and the least I could do was to say “Oh, that’s why. Well, maybe she needs some rest..’ but mom didn’t seem to hear.
By the way, Leila eats her lunch in the car on her way to our center.. Poor child..
*not real name
Posted in teacher's journal
It sounds to me the parents are living their life through her. Children must be children, and especially need time to be bored. It is through boredom that their own inspiration comes.
kahit paano masarap pa rin isipin ang ating kabataan..
I know some parents like "Leila"'s, who don't seem to recognize nor realize that children experience stress too. And they need some "quiet" time like adults do, even just doing nothing or play at home. It's really sad…
That is borderline tragic. That little girl is far too young for that many activities.
So sad to hear this. The girl is very tired
Children need to play and enjoy their childhood. Let them learning while playing, right?
What a tragedy. Her mom is pushing her too hard that she is losing the simple joys of childhood. Heaven help our children from frustrated parents who would push them to the limits to achieve what they failed to achieve in their (parents) own lives. I hope that mother will wake up in time to realize that she is actually harming her child. There may even be a time in the future when that child will rebel against her own mother. Thanks for post. God bless you all always.
parang hindi ko magets ung mother ano gusto nya mangyari sa anak nya…
this is sad. what a child needs is a more time to play and a stress-free life. kaka sad talaga..