You know what’s expensive? Baby activities. If you want to sign a baby up for activities – gym, Kindermusik, etc – that’s not cheap at all. Especially if you factor in the cost of the parent’s time in attending the activity (little babies don’t do activities alone). Of course, this kind of thing is completely optional but still. There are free activities for babies at public libraries, which will continue to exist for the next two seconds.
This is all less important if you have several children of different ages but a single child or a child with a great age difference from the sibling(s) needs activities.
We have a great Children’s Museum in town. There are rooms decorated like a dentist’s office, a credit union, a police station, a science lab, a crime lab, a supermarket, etc, and kids can go from one room to another to play. It’s a great place and children adore it. But it’s $105 per year for a family membership or $7 admission for each person. Not everybody can easily afford that.
In the view of the preceding post this will sound dumb but I would love to see a Children’s Museum founded and sponsored not by Boeing but by the state. I feel old, frumpy and outdated when I write this.
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