Giving the best to our kids

What is the best for our kids?

Nowadays, parents started to enroll their kids into different classes and programs. They are sending them to music, drawing, dancing, singing, speech, and language classes. Others also send them to right brain development, story telling, math stimulation, brain stimulation and many more. If you're a parent who had gone through above, please share your experience.

Because most parents don't know what's best for their kids, therefore, they will spend hundreds/thousands of ringgit on classes that they believe will help.

Personally, I think it's parents' role to observe and discover their kids' interest and talent. Therefore, it's not wrong to enroll kids into different programs. However, parents shall observe and participate in those programs. If their kids show no interest, or "talent", why waste the money and time. We shall explore together with the kids, and discover what's best for them.

Am a good example. My dad sent me to piano classes since 5 years old, and also my 2 brothers who were 8, and 9 years old. My brothers quit after 1-2 months. While I continued till finishing grade 8 in Form 4. Honestly, I was not a piano lover, and hate piano lessons, always forgot to cut finger nails and only practiced once a week before the lesson, even in grade 7-8. Very bad attitude. What did I gain? A good testimonial for scholarship application. That's it. I was more interested in Organ and violin.