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Yesterday, we took my 10-month-old daughter to the Mother' s Pride Baby Show (Sector-61, Noida). My husband and I were quite taken aback to note that the entire show was rigged to facililate parents who coughed up Rs.1250 as pre-admission registration fee.
Am aware that its difficult to measure the strengths and weaknesses of a child this young against her peers and I would be out of my mind to scream in abolute terms that my child had the sunniest smile or the most pretty appearance. But my husband and I know for sure that we answered correctly all 10 questions in the \" Most Aware Parents\" questionnaire as well as random questions fielded by the doc. We' re both alumni of distinguished missionary schools and colleges and doing reasonably well for ourselves at work. Yet, we didn' t figure anywhere in the list of most aware parents.
Therefore, we probably destroyed our daughter' s chances at winning a prize there, by refusing point-blank to pay up any pre-admission fee saying, \" We' re not going to rush headlong into a choice of playschool this early, before carefully examining all the options available.\" Needless to see, we were met with hostile looks thereafter by some persistent members of the staff. Earlier, my girl played with and responded to the evaluators in a most chirpy and fearless fashion and got compliments from the doc on board regarding her health milestones.
I' d also like to share the fact that colourful interiors need to be complemented by well-trained staff who speak the English language correctly and dress well, minus the flashy, sequined saris in bright, fluorescent colours. At least, all these teachers (maybe some of the relatively grave-looking ones would!) wouldn' t inspire a great deal of respect, would they?
Am slightly concerned at the way the world of education is shaping up... dr. sushant replied. Just Beware! of this Mother' s Pride Preschool. I attended the Baby Show- a so called baby show in their Hemkunt Centre. And I was shocked the way they handled the parents. There was NO activity for the kids. NO activity for the parent. Just some CRAP questionnaire and some cute faces sitting and enticing you to take a registration. They were literally begging to make me part with some 1250 Rs. WHAT A SHAME IS MOTHER' S PRIDE ALL ABOUT.
SOUTH DELHI PARENTS- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - JUST LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THIS CENTRE. NO PLAY GROUND. NO GREEN GRASS FOR OUR KIDS. JUST SOME CRAPPY SMALL CLASSES IN WHICH THEY ARE GONNA STUFF MY KID.
A STRICT NO NO FOR THIS DOWN MARKET LALAJI KI DUKAAN NAME Manish Wadhwa replied. i hv twins, boy and girl, admitted to model town branch of mothers pride and then to shalimar bagh. my experience is horrible, first they have only maids i.e. maids for cleaning and higher secondary pass maids for teaching. I regret sending them to mothers pride, it would have been better if theay had stayed at home, instead of learning good my kids now say abe tere too, on further polite enquiry from them they said madam aise he bolte hai, and daughter told - madam ne aaj mere chooti bae na di hai, this is not abt teachers whole staff is like that, they call every now and then to make child portfolio albums i dont understand thay r running a school for photoshop, also some one plaese check they dont even pay service tax on selling albums! mothers pride does nothing they hire fresh girls take money from them and then give them job, and girld claim to become teachers for easy marriage