Preschool for Adult Hipsters

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/adult-preschool-charges-hipsters-to-take-naps-play-with-glitter-glue-1.3007745

Do you ever feel like you didn’t 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 you’d giveanything 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 actual thing 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.

They’ll also have nap time.

Some of the activities participants who enroll in Brooklyn's adult daycare can expect, as listed on Preschool Mastermind's website. (MichelleJoni.com / Preschool Mastermind)

According to the course’s 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 be PRINTED and filled out BY 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 FUN with 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.”

Course instructor Michelle Joni posted this photo on Instagram, writing: "'You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.' - Play Doh. I mean Plato. " (Michelle Joni / Instagram)

“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 can’t show… AT ALL. So I switched to Fashion Merchandising.”

The course’s assistant, Candice Kilpatrick (Miss CanCan to students) is described as a former preschool teacher with a master’s degree in teaching.

Preschool Mastermind instructors Candice Kilpatrick and Michelle Joni Lapidos. (Hanna Agar / MichelleJoni.com)

ABC News reports that the program’s 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?

For those republicans who dislike millennials for their issues in growing up and for those who dislike hipsters in genreral, or those who are jelly

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/BARFS UNCONTROLLABLY

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Lol

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@vivide said:

@jugjugbanks: there there, you can still make fun of them

Not while I am still BARFING!

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@vivide: w/ raw garlic chunks and leftover chile.

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That's enough interweb for tonight.

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Neat.

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Spend $1,000 to relive your childhood or you can buy all the same stuff for $5 - $15 and act disturbed in the privacy of your own home.

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@makhai: and pay a woman who is the epitomie of the women HIPSTERS MAKE FUN OF!

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Bet there's no godammmm Ultra Man toys at this place.

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.....I got the urge to shave and quit coffee now

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@cgoodness: don't do that, just be ORIGINAL. which is to hipsters what garlic and sunlight is to VAMPIRES.

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Nothing wrong here, just a bunch of people spending their money to fool around.

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You know what would be a better use of that money? Giving it to me...

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I take nap time at my job all the time, there has been a lot of plane crashes lately.

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Doesn't sound to bad :D

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Spending almost $1000 for nap time?

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@thevivas said:

Spending almost $1000 for nap time?

Why not?

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@hylian said:

@thevivas said:

Spending almost $1000 for nap time?

Why not?

Cause I get a 15 minute nap every time at work. It's just called a "break"

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@thevivas said:

@hylian said:

@thevivas said:

Spending almost $1000 for nap time?

Why not?

Cause I get a 15 minute nap every time at work. It's just called a "break"

It would be fun ^_^