Exert your talents, distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. -Samuel Johnson A 20-year retrospective study, funded by the ...
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Michael Grose For many years under-parenting was perhaps the biggest problem facing children. Recently there has emerged another type of parenting that, whilst never as harmful as under-parenting, can...
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Dr. Elisa Medhus Do we want our kids to use their noggins wisely and independently, or do we want them to be little ventriloquist dummies parroting the thoughts of the pop culture and their peers? Not...
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Elsie Calitz Teachers can tell hair raising as well as extremely funny stories about biting. One teacher related how one little boy bit another one in a place where no little boy wants to be bitten. T...
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Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard The municipal preprimary schools in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia have been attracting worldwide attention for more than a decade. The reasons are many ...
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New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik| Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger...
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Relating Lovingly to Babies The best laid plans o’ mice and men gang aft aglay. Robert Burns (To A Mouse) In her Exchange article, “Being with Babies” (September/October 2011), Anna ...
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward. -William Hazlitt In her article in the March/April 2012 issue of Exchange, “The Intangibles in the Early Childhood Classroom,” Carol B. Hillman ...
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It’s a new, hands-off approach to raising kids. Should you give it a try? By Lisa Zamosky WebMD Feature Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Would you let your 9-year-old son ride the New York City Subway sy...
