Cut the Interrogation Habit
We recently got a new set of blocks for my son. Castle blocks – the kind with painted drawbridges and turrets. He loves all things knights and horses, and so far many towers and dungeons have been built, crashed and tumbled.
Chuck the Calendars
While researching my book, I’ve visited a lot of preschool classrooms. Preschool, pre-K, Young Fives, kindergarten, Montessori, public, private, charter, you name it. I’ve observed too many to count. One thing I almost always see in each early ed. classroom is an enormous calendar.
Keep the PRE in preschool
I wrote an op-ed piece about the President’s call for universal preschool for 4-year-olds, and my editor replied asking ‘surely you don’t think having the kids learn the alphabet and numbers 1-10 is too academic?’