2 Brooklyn Chicks Create Pre-School For Adults

Village Voice - Michelle Joni Lapidos is the girl who would not grow up. At least, not in the conventional sense of being bogged down by anxiety and an unloved job. Pretty, with red hair and an incessant desire to play, Lapidos is a part-hippie, part-four-year-old devoted to seeing adults break out of their routines and rediscover the “magic” of childhood. It is one of the reasons that Lapidos, 30, is starting a preschool. For adults. That’s right. Anyone 18 or older can enroll in Lapidos’s Preschool Mastermind, a month-long course where adults can relive their pre-K days with activities like finger-painting, show-and-tell, nap time, and even a class picture day that prompts you to “dress your 4-year-old best.” Lapidos, who in 2013 started a skipping club in Brooklyn, says she’s always looking for new ways to get people in touch with the freedom of childhood. She was encouraged by a friend to start a mastermind course, and later — while giving a foot massage to another acquaintance who happened to teach preschool — divined just what kind of project to tackle. “His preschool-teacher-ness came through me,” says Lapidos of her eureka moment. What she characterizes as her impulsive self proceeded to bring the concept to fruition, at which point she invited a blogger friend, Candice Kilpatrick, to be her teaching assistant. “Adults are in this routine, this stagnation, and by tapping into the ‘play’ part of our brains by skipping or doing the things that we did in preschool, we’re bringing ourselves back to another place, another time with ourselves, maybe when we were more believing of ourselves, when we were more confident and ready to take on the world. And I want to nourish that in people,” Lapidos says. Kilpatrick — or “Ms. CanCan,” as prospective students will call her — used to teach preschool when she lived overseas in Asia. She also has a master’s degree in teaching. Adults can relearn and master things that they failed to understand as children, Kilpatrick explains, offering the example of “bilateral integration skills” (being able to fluidly perform tasks with both sides of your body simultaneously). She cites an activity from one of her preschool classes wherein kids had to master drawing the figure “8” with both hands and in such a way that the center of the numeral crossed the middle of the page.

If you pay $1,000 to go to pre school as an adult you are a Grade A asshole and nothing you say or do can change my mind about that. I can’t even knock these 2 hipster assholes for coming up with this idea because the reality of the matter is there’s enough dickheads out there that will actually do this to the point that you can probably make money. But make no mistake about it – if you’re like 35 years old and you drop a grand to finger paint and take naps with other grown ass adults, you are A) the whitest person alive and B) a complete fucking asshole. The only acceptable reason to join this is if you’re trying to bang a crazy chick who buys into this. Maybe, maybe, I can justify dropping a couple hundred bucks to nap with her or something. Otherwise there is no way you can tell me this is a good idea.

And I love the main reason they give for this is that there are kids that can draw figure 8s with both hands and adults cant. Oh gee how did I not realize that? Sign me the fuck up! Here’s a thousand bucks so that I can draw figure 8s. Can you remind me how to pat my head and rub my tummy too? Havent done that since I was about 5 either. Sounds to me like a couple of unemployed broads knows that everyone in Brooklyn is a dick and they’re gonna cash in on it. Snake it til you make it, girls.