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Fast-Track Kindergarten4 comments

annkroeker wrote 2 months ago: Quick-link references for this article: MSNBC’s “Tutoring tots? Some kids prep for kinde … more →

Tags: Alliance for Childhood, Children, children play, fast-track kindergarten, Kindergarten, Play, pressure-cooker kindergarten

Free Writing Fridays: No Place Like Home For Zero To Fives

Anna & Ellie wrote 6 months ago: The Axiom Of Responsibility Individuals Demonstrate Valid Behavior By Taking Responsibility For Them … more →

Tags: F. Free Writing Fridays, magna sententia, axiom of responsibility, Taking Responsibility For Your Children, raising children properly, President Obama, raising your children well, zero to fives, Zero to Five plan

Homeschooling styles and methods: Delayed instruction

militaryhomeschooling wrote 8 months ago: Delayed Instruction Parents who use the delayed instruction approach to homeschooling introduce the … more →

Tags: Styles and methods of homeschooling, Homeschooling, delayed instruction, June Oberlander, Raymond Moore, Dorothy Moore

Less and Less Important Play Time...1 comment

toyportfolio wrote 8 months ago: The results will probably not shock anyone…but take a look at this interesting study from the … more →

Tags: Active play, play time, Alliance for Childhood, The Hurried Child, The Power of Play, Kindergarten, UCLA, Long Island University, Sarah Lawrence College

The parent-child equation - Part 1

cathedralist wrote 1 year ago: The universal relationship between parent and child is fraught with wild swings in emotion, running … more →

Tags: Quotations, A. Marcel, Baby, Carolyn Coats, Child, Childhood, Emotion, Floyd R. Miller, infant

Brain bucket

J.R. Atwood wrote 1 year ago: So. Much. Good. Stuff. *** “Can We Play?,” by Dr. David Elkind and published on the Shar … more →

Tags: Etc, Play, Think, Beijing, Boris Johnson, brain, Brain health, cognitive functioning, Culture

Your Didn’t Make the Cut Kid

Roc wrote 1 year ago: As a culture we need to relax when it comes to the social impulse to want to usher kids onto teams, … more →

Tags: Organized Play, Competitive Play, The Hurried Child, Rushing Kids, Youth Organized Programs, Youth Competition

What Preschool Punk is reading these days...

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Saying Enough! to: SuperKids, SuperCultures, and SuperPowers2 comments

Roc wrote 2 years ago: The pressure to grow up fast, to achieve early in the very great in middle-class America. There is n … more →

Tags: Parenting, Branding, David Elkland, SuperCultures, SuperKids, superpowers


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