Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School

Overparenting

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...

Talking to babies

Talking to babies

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 ...

Children’s aesthetic awareness

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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 ...

The learning environment

Talking to babies

Rethinking Environments If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. Winnie the Pooh In the speci...