Practica - Any Good?

I had a stick to play with between birth and age 7.... I turned out pretty damn good, and it didn't cost my parents R7K

OK but seriously, I don't know about this...
 
Yup I'm thinking a stick would be great. could almost get 2 tablets for that price
 
We bought it when our first one came along. They are still playing with it 7 years later. But, looking back, I am not sure if it was worth it. We did go through the exercises in the beginning, but after they have gone to nursery school, we stopped. We only used the sheets to track if their development is up to scratch.

If you are going to home school, then I would say go for it. Otherwise, there are better things to spend your money on.
 
Get some planks, nails and a hammer....
Also get some sand in one of those clam shells that you can shut so the neighbourhood cats don't use it as a litterbox.
If you don't have trees in your yard, get the kids to a park where there are trees where they can climb and play Tarzan.
Let them get muddy, jump in puddles, kiss a dog, pick up a sweet and pop it back in their mouths after rubbing it on the seat of their pants to get the dust and dirt off....
Hang a tyre from a rope in a tree or any horizontal beam and let them swing....

If they break an arm from taking a tumble from a too high swing, kiss it better, take them to the Doctor, then write a big DADDY/MOMMY LOVES YOU on the cast...
Scrapes and grazes heal faster when you apply some magic plasters and a get better kiss.

When we were growing up a playstation was the place where your trains came from and went to in the dirt tracks you made.
Television was something the grownups watched news on at 6pm, then we could watch from 6:30 to 7, when the adults would watch Derrick or something similar.

Let the kids be kids, and leave the learning for the 12 years they have to spend in school.
 
not worth it. Waaaay overpriced. My wife and I did some homework while expecting our child and discovered this is way overkill and kids prerfer simple cheap toys. The curriculum is hectic on the poor child
 
I was one of the first children to use Practica back in 1993. Practica helps you track your LO's development from birth. I think they are even launching a pre-birth program now...
Basically, it tells you what's developing in your child's brain at every age - and then they give you practical ideas on how to stimulate that specific area. Yes, you could buy all the toys, but do you know which ones to buy? And then do you know how to use that toy for an age specific game that targets a certain developmental area? It is also not a curriculum but a system aimed at empowering a parent to give them the right ideas and tools for every year between 0 - 7. Sometimes they even give you a simple activity idea using ice and a bucket that stimulates like 4 different developmental areas - who would have thought that ice could be useful in such a way?

I would say that it helped me a lot. I'm Head designer/art director at an agency, 1st in my Bsc Faculty at Uni, 5 A's in matric. Not to mention that Practica helps develop your child's EQ which is in some way more important than IQ I think. Yes, by all means, give your child a stick and mud, but can you turn that into an educational activity specific for your child's age and development? And sure, ask any parent what their child is GOOD at and they can name a bunch of things...but ask them what their child is NOT good at? I'm expecting my first baby now - and by golly will I be using Practica every day.
 
roughiain said:
The OCD part of my brain likes the idea of a "system" and the paranoid bit also likes it. But seeing the comments on hello peter make it a lot easier to say no.

http://www.hellopeter.com/practica-program/compliments-and-complaints

seems like it is a Kirby vacuum cleaner type product...
Click to expand...

EDIT:: FFS I just helped a spammer necro a long dead thread. I sowwy :o


You mean it sucks up all your money?

Chase the little one outside to go and play. When he/she is old enough get a cheap fong kong tablet and load some educational games from the app store.
 
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