If TS can afford why not leh. Haha.

But speaking of a working parent in sg. Sg has a very different system. I get to send my daughter to sch as early as 2 months.

Infant > playground > nursery > kindergarten.

Infant they have some activities to do, although most of the time either sleep or eat.

When they move to playground, they do more art work and learning.

Nursery is more on learning fundamental

Kindergarten is where they are exposed to more things.

It is pretty healthy exposure to the kids from early childhood.

I think TS wants something like that ba.

Parents play a more important role in developing their child rather than sending to such centres

(i know you are asking about brain development centre and not tuition centre) but anyway let me share something (my wife is running a centre)

i have seen all sorts of parents sending their child to tuition centres at a very young age (as young as 5 years old)

This is what i have observed among the two extremes

Well educated parents who also nurtured their kids well at home
Their children are fast learners, progress well, and easily understand instructions. When you speak to their parents, you can easily see that they are well educated and my assumption is that they have also nurtured their kids well at home. Or highly possibly, these kids inherit good genes from their parents. There are many journal articles out there highlighting the role of genes in kids' intelligence.

Parents who do not nurture their kids well at home
Their children usually progress slowly. Some even can't understand basic instructions. Well, learning development among children is also heavily influenced by genetic factors other than environment. When you speak to these parents, you can easily see it that these parents are those rich traders/businessman type who are not well educated. Some of these kids attended multiple extra classes but yet they don't seem to excel well academically.

Other than the two extreme groups i observed above, there are also the average-performing students.

In conclusion, no harm sending your kid to those brain development centres but you yourself, as a parent, play a more important role in developing them at home.

Spend time with them at home and encourage them to read instead of giving them handphones. Take them to libraries/bookstores. < These are the more important things to do and it costs less than sending to those centres.

My Daugther attending Montessori playschool at 26 months, we decided to let her go to playschool since she can talk and express herself what she want, what she don’t like.

Now, she’s a speech monster, even more talkative and can structure sentences well enough at 3 years old.

Learn to Make friend, fight, be friend again with her classmate lol

She can count, read abc, and sing nursery song

Ada wang semua bole. Suka u Want abalone ka want eat chicken rice ka.

80% of a child’s brain develops by age of three. It’s during these years that the child’s brain begins to develop memory, language, thinking and reasoning skills.

They learn by imitating the behavior of others, especially adults and older children. It can also be a trying time, as they begin to show defiant behaviour and set out to explore the world around them.

Children grow up very fast.

Parents should focus on them, during their first 3 years. Enjoy playing, singing, laughing or even crying with them. They learn very fast. But their attention span is short.

For me, parents are always the best teachers.

If want to try sending them to those special classes, no harm trying. There is always something new to learn.

Just don't be too kiasu, make your child to be better than others..... every child is different.  Some just want to learn slowly.... some are quick learners.

I know one guy personally, young time, slow learner.

Parents tried everything, send expensive tution, expensive private tutor also failed.

he more prefer to mix with bad hats, smoking at school, car illegal racing, miss classes.

everything fail, everyday in class fail. Go to uni in Australia, kena kicked out.

in the end parents have to send him to easiest uni in USA.

Because parents rich, he can inherit their business.

Now he boss, earn big bucks.

Yes, ada wang anything bole

I know one guy personally, young time, slow learner.

Parents tried everything, send expensive tution, expensive private tutor also failed.

he more prefer to mix with bad hats, smoking at school, car illegal racing, miss classes.

everything fail, everyday in class fail. Go to uni in Australia, kena kicked out.

in the end parents have to send him to easiest uni in USA.

Because parents rich, he can inherit their business.

Now he boss, earn big bucks.

Yes, ada wang anything bole

Montessori is good

but if you are planning to send them to chinese school, montessori and learning chinese contradict.

80% of a child’s brain develops by age of three. It’s during these years that the child’s brain begins to develop memory, language, thinking and reasoning skills.

They learn by imitating the behavior of others, especially adults and older children. It can also be a trying time, as they begin to show defiant behaviour and set out to explore the world around them.

Children grow up very fast.

Parents should focus on them, during their first 3 years. Enjoy playing, singing, laughing or even crying with them. They learn very fast. But their attention span is short.

For me, parents are always the best teachers.

If want to try sending them to those special classes, no harm trying. There is always something new to learn.

Just don't be too kiasu, make your child to be better than others..... every child is different.  Some just want to learn slowly.... some are quick learners.

I think sleep is super important

Some parents over do with the learning, till late night etc

That one has bigger impact than most other things

And audio visual devices at night, also impact sleep

Impacts physical growth, brain growth and regeneration

Studies show brain growth for men finishes at 25 years old

And studies also show the brain need "boredom time" instead of overstimulation

Edit:
There's currently a trend where the kids final height is up to 1 foot less than the expected height due to mobile and iPad use

Lack of vitamin D from lack of outdoor activity

Increased rate of myopia

And markedly short attention span

Brain crave for further over stimulation

Impact real learning long term

i was expecting something like, in the end, maybe he insaf, becomes a good guy and makes his parents proud lol

Unfortunately she speak 0 Chinese (although I’m Chinese and speak Chinese with my parent and sibling)

Still undecided to send her to Chinese medium, or sk or international school

I concur on this. Toddler or kids need adequate sleep and physical play time. We grew up just fine, aren't we ?

Nowadays many gadgets. Not like our time.

Been talking to parents who give their kids gadgets

Some even bring to their room

Next day some of them even sleep in class.

Distracted half the time

Some of them even talking about brain rot tik tok during school hours.

And couple of them already had early puberty but no major growth spurt, probably some growth restriction.

I don't know whether this and COVID brought record failures out during SPM, but this trend is seriously concerning for the nation and the world.
Edit:
On the issue of independence and emotional growth, parents spending time with their kids got bigger factor than kindy or primary school when they are preteen.

You have to build the bridge to teenage years.

They have to be so impressed with you, they respect you and wanna be like you but better.

Otherwise gg

I used family link for my kids devices. 930pm down.
One day max is 3 hours screen time. Weekend longer.

Swimming, basketball etc.