Friday, January 21, 2011

Who Needs College?; or, ABC (Elmo)

When we did our annual budget a few weeks ago we made the horrifying discovery that we are spending more annually on Nicholas' daycare than my college cost each year (yes, including room and board). So I looked it up and it turns out his "school" costs twice as much as tuition this year at the University of Maryland.

Yes, it was depressing.

But, this post is not to whine about that. Really. I swear. It is to say that tonight I began to wonder if he is actually learning more at his school than most college students learn in a year.

Why, you ask? Just watch this:
From 2011 January

4 comments:

  1. Was that an "eleven-twelve-thirteen" in there before he starts the ABCs? I'm impressed!

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  2. I'm very excited because once he gets the alphabet down solid we can start working on memorizing the presidents!

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  3. We LOL'd and almost P'd at how Nicholas phrases his "L-M-N-O-P."

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  4. Yeah, one of the reasons we moved is that we could cut our childcare bill down by half - or more! It is insane. Our tax program asks every year "Are you sure, that seems high" for childcare. Oy!

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