Is Simulation Necessary or just let Nature take course ?

Dilemma !!

Mommy was in dilemma quite some times after reading some "Expert" books or even website how to nurture children.
They suggest to stimulate or kids as early as possible even before they were born. Based on their research, they said that the first 5 years are golden years where the brain is developing very active and they are fast learner.
Therefore, they said that it's a right time to teach them reading, mathematic, stimulate physical skills such as roll over, crawling, etc.

Well, perhaps they have applied it to some children but not all children can use that method.
I believe that every child is unique and we can't apply the same concept to them.
It happens with Richie. Perhaps mommy 's a bit kiasu hehe...

From 2 months old, mommy stimulated him to lift his head up by placing him in tummy position.
Then from 3 months old, mommy stimulated him to roll over by placing some toys surrounding but he seemed not interested. Even though Richie could roll over but he chose not to..until mommy was a bit worried when he reached 6 months old, he still couldn't roll over. And mommy gave up, just let him be.
But amazingly, he learnt to roll over within one night then he became an expert afterwards without mommy doing anything.

The interesting part was he could have his own balance to sit unsupported first before rolling over.
Then, it happened again when he's 9 months old. He's already pulled himself to stand and start cruising but didn't want to crawl even though mommy stimulate him by using moving toys like balls. And when he's 9.5 months old, he suddenly could crawl and until now he crawls every where.

From those two events, mommy realized that Richie is unique, normal stimulation doesn't seem applicable for him, instead he has his own time to master the skills without mommy doing anything.

Another interesting event is according to the expert, we can stimulate our kid to do stacking and shape sortir, but on the opposite, Richie likes to destroy hahaha...

Well, I guess mommy just need to explore by trials and errors to stimulate Richie hehe instead of relying to the expert.
And now Richie likes to entertain himself by pushing the balls and he's trying to catch it (see video)

Anyway, mommy and daddy don't want to shape Richie to be a SUPERKID or TOP CLASS in the school since both of us were Top student before and in the real life, there are more things important than being a top class.

What mommy and daddy want to nurture Richie is so Richie has
- dignity about himself
- value and appreciate life
- social skill how to make friends with different groups, races, classes
- skill to manage money not only saving but also investing