Monday, October 28, 2013

Rich parents in New York give babies personal tuition in French and Chinese...

The pursuit of educational excellence is so competitive in New York that some babies are given personal tuition in French and Chinese, and four-year-olds are hothoused for the best schools.

Some of the richest, most competitive, most fashionable parents on the planet leave no stone unturned in the fight to provide their children with the upper hand.Babies who cannot even form sentences in their native English are signed up to "baby and me" lessons in Chinese or French in the ultra-trendy TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan.

At TriBeCa Language, the lessons are open to tots as soon as they start babbling.

In one, a French teacher sings a well-known French nursery rhyme to nine-month-old twins sitting under a "baby gym" on a mat with their American mother.

The teacher then guides them through a game with little doors illustrated with pictures of rooms in a house, behind which are animal figurines. "Where is the rabbit? In the sitting room!" she says in French, opening one of the little doors. Full story...

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