Like all eager beaver parents, we signed him up for Heguru at a grand old age of 1 year old. Here's how it went for us, there were no trials to test and it was upfront signing up of a term and wham you swim or float or drown. (OK, not so serious since it was parent accompanied).




It is no secret that there is no hard selling, they know it works and is effective hence the whole "you know it's good since you are here" attitude. So fine, without a clue how a proper lesson in Singapore is conducted, we signed up for a term.


After 10 months with them, we called it quits.




60 minutes of flashcards, songs, games




It is intense. As an adult, I could barely catch up and I expected my 1 year old to. What an irony, if anything the fidgety little one was engaged enough at the start. And what more he was able to get some of those questions right so that kept our interest high.




Teachers matter, for the kid


In a span of 10 months he had a change in teachers and friends and I saw a noticeable change. He was less engaged in class somehow and I tried enquiring about his favourite teacher's class.


So then, with this declined interest came my dwindling interest in enrolling him for yet another term.


Right brain training until 3


Sure there is a lot of theory about this, theoretically the brain absorbs the most from 0-3 and beyond that? They have classes till 12...I mean really? At that age when the golden age is over, it still benefits?


Different outlets, different management styles


Under this franchise, there are two different groups governing this and they are managed quite differently. We went to the group under Mr Kuah Eng Liang, came with a briefing session and no deposit required, neither did we have to attend a "counseling" session to dissuade us from withdrawing Cyrus from the classes. It was rather fuss free and thank god for that, I cannot handle dramatic farewells.


I'm sure we benefited somehow from these 10 months and gave the programme enough faith I feel...he can complete iroita puzzles when he feels like it, has a pretty good memory yet whether or not it can be directly attributed to Heguru remains a big question and unless you're going to sit down with your child all the time to revise and reinforce then really, it really is just another enrichment class to check off the list.


Honestly, we could revisit this a year or two later but for now, we are quite done with Heguru.