The truth: Ordinary families really don’t need to enroll their children in any interest classes

This summer vacation, the only class my son attended under the scorching sun was a sketching class. Every time he came home from school, he would ask me incessantly: \”Mom, how many classes are left?\” Hearing that there were fewer and fewer classes, he felt relieved. To be honest, the sketching class has become a psychological burden for him: If he doesn\’t go, he will feel sorry for the tuition fee; if he goes, he really won\’t be interested. Thinking about the expectations I once had for \”interest classes\”, now they are really useless, and they are \”expensive\”. Looking back on the six years of interest classes, what I want to say is: interest classes are really not the standard for children from ordinary families! I sincerely suggest you: Ordinary families, don’t spend too much money on interest classes! 01 Interest classes are not the interests of ordinary families. Parents of kindergarten students are more obsessed with interest classes than parents of primary school students. Most parents of primary school students are unable to get off the horse because their interests have been cultivated all the way from kindergarten. Playing piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and ball games… at least sign one up for your child, what if he can still become a talent? No chance! If you are an ordinary family, it is really not recommended to enroll your children in interest classes, especially musical instruments. The starting threshold is high and a lot of energy is spent, but the results are really very little. There is a little girl in our unit who was born in 1998. Once when the topic of the current children\’s training class was brought up, she suddenly revealed: I also passed the piano level 10 exam! I asked her: Where is the piano? Are you still playing? She laughed at herself: Since passing the tenth level exam, she has never touched the piano keys again. The piano took up space at home and was covered in dust, so her mother had no choice but to give it away. When I look back and calculate the value, the money to buy the piano, the cost of training, the time and energy spent… It\’s really heartbreaking, I feel regretful and unworthy just thinking about it! If I had known earlier, it would be great to leave this time for children to play! I work in a cultural-related unit, and I have met some children majoring in art over the years. Looking at the family backgrounds of these children, there are two things in common: one is that the family is rich, and the other is family inheritance. To put it bluntly: one is not short of money, and the other is talent and connections. Parents and grandparents themselves are artistic people. Children have been influenced by art since childhood and receive the best training resources. In addition, parents know how to plan their children\’s artistic development route from an early age. If such children attend interest classes from an early age, the money spent will be valuable. For most families, enrolling their children in interest classes is mostly a matter of following what others say and flocking to them. To be honest, ordinary families really have nothing to do with music, chess, calligraphy and painting. The current society is an era where nothing can be done without money. As an ordinary family, there are so many things that need to be spent. It is better to save this money and save it for the time when the children are in elementary school and use it for an opportunity! 02 Children’s time and energy are really limited. It is not recommended that children sign up for interest classes. There is another main reason: as children grow up, their time is really too precious. I feel deeply about this. When my son was in kindergarten, he signed up for an art class and a Go class just for fun. However, when he entered elementary school, he felt he was short of time and stopped playing Go first. After entering elementary school, the child liked ball games and signed up for football and basketball, both of which ended up in the fifth grade. The painting class was an accident. I signed up for too many classes at once, and I asked for leave from time to time. It dragged on and on.Now. Over the past six years, I can count on one hand the number of interest classes my children have enrolled in, but none of them have persisted, and none of them have been mastered. Looking at today\’s education ecosystem, scores are still the most important weapon for children. Instead of spending time in interest classes, it is better to consolidate children\’s learning knowledge. Especially after children reach senior grades, as the difficulty of knowledge increases, the time invested in learning is proportional to the output of learning results. Investing time in Chinese, mathematics, and English to improve academic performance is the core competitiveness of a student, and only then can he have a chance to enter the college entrance examination. 03 Money spent wisely is worth it! Some parents may not be happy to hear this: Are children from ordinary families not qualified to attend interest classes and study art? Yes and no. From the perspective of the ultimate goal, children from ordinary families cannot compete with qualified children. Since you can see the outcome, why should you hold your breath and fight? It costs money and time, and the gain outweighs the loss. Of course, judging from the current situation, ordinary families may also be able to afford training fees worth tens of thousands of yuan, and the purpose is to make their children happy. But if from an investment perspective: input and output are not proportional at all, why insist on it? Wouldn’t it be more meaningful to save thousands of dollars in training fees every year and take the children on a trip, buy more toys for the children, or satisfy a child’s wishes? For a child, his vision of the world and his ability to deal with others are more meaningful foundations of success than the talent of a three-legged cat. And cultivating the former does not require spending so much money at all. *** Money should be spent on the blade, power should be concentrated on the fist, and action should be carried out towards the goal. It sounds very tacky, but in fact it is the most down-to-earth.