Pekip and reviews?

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angeilin

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Hi,

I'm planning to enrol my son in Pekip and he is 6.5 months old. Has anyone tried Pekip and any reviews? I've read some of the reviews on geobaby but just wanted to get more updated ones. Pls let me know what you thought of it and whether your baby enjoyed the session. thanks!!
 
My daughter and I went when she was 6 months old. She cried from the second lesson on. She hated lying down on the mattress naked, but she was the only one crying. I didn't find the teacher too friendly with babies that cry. She kept saying my baby was noisy and don't understand why she cried. I wanted to quit after the 2nd lesson but she insisted I let her try again. So I went 2 more times but my baby just never stopped crying. She ended up refunding the rest of the fees to me which was good. This is just my experience that I like to share, maybe your baby will enjoy it a lot! So did all the other babies that were in the class.
Good luck!


angeilin said:
Hi,

I'm planning to enrol my son in Pekip and he is 6.5 months old. Has anyone tried Pekip and any reviews? I've read some of the reviews on geobaby but just wanted to get more updated ones. Pls let me know what you thought of it and whether your baby enjoyed the session. thanks!!
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Hi

I took my baby when he was just over 2 months. Looking back, it was way too early. He didn't enjoy it, like Meimei, my baby cried the whole time and hated being naked.
 
we joined when my daughter was 6mths old. my daughter also cried for the first 15mins, and cried when the instructor talked to her. she didn't like her dark rimmed glasses & curly hair, so once the instructor took the glasses off & tied up her curly hair, my daughter stopped crying!!

i think she enjoyed the crawling & playing with the lotion & water & the flipping around.

i joined cos my friend highly recommended it. i do agree that it helpes baby realize their body's orientation & help them balance/break a fall, etc. my daughter didn't walk early (at 14 mths). But her reflexes are obviously better than her peers. e.g. she breaks a fall by putting out her arms & pushes her hand on the ground once she falls. she also climbs quickly & tumbles well. i would never know whether it was because she was at pekip or not, cos there's no way i would have known otherwise. but my friend who recommended it told me that's what pekip does, help a child's orientation & that they learn quickly to go feet first when crawling down.

if i have a 2nd child, i'll still join.
 
Thanks for advices.

I will give it a try as it would be another activity for me to look forward to do with my son. He likes playing with just his pampers on so I do think he will not mind being naked.
 
My baby has been going to Pekip for 4 weeks now, and I cannot say whether she loves it or not as she has cried in one class but not the other. One thing though, it has helped her development greatly so I would really recommend it to others.
 
We've been going to PEKIP since Sep and love it. The baby gets a good workout --and so do I! I wish I had done it with my first one, too. Will definitely do PEKIP again if ever we have another baby. :)
 
I have heard of very different comments for PEKIP, and I'm quite interested to try it out with my 4-month-old. One concern was that the babies in the photos on the website were naked in class? Would there be any hygiene problems arisen?
 
rachel0213ee said:
I have heard of very different comments for PEKIP, and I'm quite interested to try it out with my 4-month-old. One concern was that the babies in the photos on the website were naked in class? Would there be any hygiene problems arisen?
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like what hygiene problems?? that they pee on the mattress? easy to clean up and the instructor has disinfectant on hand all the time.

PEKIB was excellent in my view. Anne can be a bit harsh to crying kids but she is an absolute pro and knows what happens to kids and what they should do to improve their motoric skills. if you go just for a feel-good experience, try your luck. if you go for real improvement in the baby's motoric skills, then it's a definitive must.

ps: we had both our kids go through it. both started walking between 9 and 10 months and overall have excellent motoric skills. i do credit PEKIB for a lot of that
 
We went to PEKIP & as long as your child does everything as expected, you will be fine. But if your child cries, is slow to crawl, etc then I would not recommend the class. We stopped attending classes midway through the term as I was using the class for social interaction too & overall just did not find the teacher supportive at all. After speaking to a few friends, they also had similar negative experiences.

As far as your child being more advanced due to the class, I don't think this is true. We started PEKIP when my son was a bit older and he was no less advanced than the babies who had been enrolled in the prior terms. But I will say that my son was so exhausted after the classes that he would sleep well, so this was definitely a plus! I also think the class did give me a few good ideas on how to stimulate him, but overall we just did not have a good experience.
 
just did not find the teacher supportive at all. After speaking to a few friends, they also had similar negative experiences.
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If this was the same person who the Mrs took our son to about 9-10 years ago. I completely understand and empathize with what you went through. Bit of an authoritarian... which is all too weird considering the age group this is targeted to.
 
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