Enrichment and tuition centres are sprouting in Singapore. Many parents only come to realise that their child is not interested in reading nor any form of activity that requires the discipline to sit, think and analyse, when the child enters the kindergarten stage.

Enrolling the child into enrichment programmes to help him cope in his school academic curriculum may be a solution. However, this is a reactive approach to inculcate the learning habit in a child.

Every child loves to learn when learning is fun, and done in a loving environment. Parents simply need to do the right thing during the first three years of the child’s life by making sure that the early brain is not ‘hurt’ but enhanced.

Yes, many parents are hurting or slowing their child’s brain growth without realising it!

Then, they realise it too late when the child starts school. It is no more fun for both parents and child when the stress in education starts to increase. The cortisol hormones increase which brings down the immune system, and worse the individual’s mental health. Besides, this is causing strained parent-child relationship.