Exposure

Varsha likes cycling and she likes it even more if i come with her so i also walk with her while she cycles(i also get some exercise), the other day i saw a child six years old struggling to carry a keyboard which was too big for him and his mother on the side urging him to hurry up as he was late for the class and as she saw the look of surprise on my face she said,'oh!he loves music'.The next day i saw the same child going for drawing class and the mother is looking for some other classes to put him for other days. I was really curious to know how much could the child take and for how long so i spoke to his mother and she had a pat answer for me,'it is our duty as a parent to give exposure to the child otherwise how will we know what he is good at' it was not a surprise as i too had fallen for this exposure thingy a few years back when we had just shifted to bangalore and first time in an apartment complex varun had to undergo the torture of going to different classes when he was in second standard but luckily it did not last long.
Have been thinking about this exposure thingy what is it? Sending the child at such a young age to different classes is exposure or exposing the child to different things like going for music concerts or listening to music at home, going to plays, theatres or dance programmes or going to art exhibitions and observing things around him and then develop an interest in learning a particular thing would make the whole process enjoyable and long lasting.