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Rather than clutter their worlds with more and more stuff, sometimes the wisest course for us.
She looks at children\'s use of language, their artistic expressions, the way their imaginations grow, and how they build deep emotional bonds to stretch the boundaries of their small worlds.
She offers real-life solutions to real-life issues, with nuance and direction that takes us far beyond the usual prescriptions for fewer tests, more play.
In her pathbreaking book, Christakis explains What it\'s like to be a Young child in America today, in a world designed by and for adults, where we have confused schooling with learning.
Our anxiety about preparing and safeguarding our children\'s future seems to have reached a fever pitch at a time when, ironically, science gives us more certainty than ever before that Young Children are exceptionally strong thinkers.
But Yale early childhood expert Erika Christakis says our fears are wildly misplaced.
These mismatched expectations wreak havoc on the family: parents fear that if they choose the wrong program, their child won\'t get into the right college.
Yet in today\'s preschool and kindergarten classrooms, learning has been reduced to scripted lessons and suspect metrics that too often undervalue a child\'s intelligence while overtaxing the child\'s growing brain.
Little Children come into the world hardwired to learn in virtually any setting and about any matter. --NPR The New York Times bestseller that provides a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where Young Children learn best by taking the child\'s eye view of the learning environment To a four-year-old watching bulldozers at a construction site or chasing butterflies in flight, the world is awash with promise. --Washington Post What kids Need from grown-ups (but aren\'t getting)...an impassioned plea for educators and parents to put down the worksheets and flash cards, ditch the tired craft projects (yes, you, Thanksgiving Handprint Turkey) and exotic vocabulary lessons, and double-down on one, simple word: play. engaging and important. . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and personal . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . .
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