'Adult preschool' charges hipsters to take naps, play with glitter glue
Students at the world's first 'adult preschool' pay up to $999 for a month-long course that includes nap time
Do you ever feel like you didnt make the most of your time as a 4-year-old? Like you failed to appreciate how awesome life was when gift shopping meant bringing home a macaroni necklace? Like youd give anything to see nap time on your schedule again?
Your inner child is in luck but only if your outer adult can afford to enrol in adult preschool, which is an actualthing now. No jokes.
Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., Preschool Mastermind is a one-month long program that purports to help grown-ups over the age of 18 re-learn the basics and experience the magic of life as it was originally intended.
For between $333 and $999, participants can expect to spend time in class playing games, doing arts and crafts, participating in show-and-tell sessions, going on field trips and completing playsheets, among other activities.
Theyll also have nap time.
According to the courses website, Preschool Mastermind has a limit of 10 students per class all of whom must apply for the privilege of enrolling.
Please note, [applications] must bePRINTEDand filled outBY HAND, reads the application instructions. Think markers, crayons, paint perhaps this means a trip to the art store ohh fun! Please read carefully (because this time around, you can read). Most importantly,HAVE FUNwith it!
Course founder Michelle Joni Lapidos, 30, indicates on her website that both men and women (or grownup boys and girls, as she puts it) are welcome in the program, and that she is looking for bright-minded students who are intent on making play more part of their life.
Miss Joni, who teaches the course out of her Brooklyn home / office space with the aid of an assistant, has nearly half a degree in Early Childhood Education according to her bio.
I wanted to be a preschool teacher for many years, so that is what I originally went to college for! she wrote. But then I realized that career path meant being chained to a classroom and told that my butt cant show AT ALL. So I switched to Fashion Merchandising.
The courses assistant, Candice Kilpatrick (Miss CanCan to students) is described as a former preschool teacher with a masters degree in teaching.
ABC News reports that the programs first round of students will finalize the inaugural course on Tuesday by bringing two adults of their choice to class with them.
The activity is being called parents day, and one grown-up kid is reportedly bringing her actual mom and dad.
Preschool Mastermind is preparing to start a new term this fall, according to TIME. Would you enrol if you had the chance?