For us at least, the time we spend together doing these things is not lesson time, it is quality time, and Smallsteps laps it up, she loves it.
Quality time is the real thing and that's what parenting really is . Here people have reduced parenting to just provide a child's material needs and push the academic needs of the child to the class teacher from a personal experience as a teacher, children who spend quality time with parents are smarter articulates very properly.
Kids are attached so much to their mothers but never worry they love daddy so much.