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Early Academics

Early Academics Stanford researchers show we’re sending many children to school way too early The Gift of Time? School Starting Age and Mental Health Finnish Kids Don’t Learn To Read In Kindergarten. They Turn Out Great Anyway. Study finds improved self-regulation in kindergartners who wait a year to enroll K & Preschool Teachers: Last Stand

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Screen & Media

Screen & Media Electronic Baby Toys Associated with Decrease in Quality and Quantity of Language in Infants Don’t let the toys do the talking: The case of electronic and traditional shape sorters Association of the Type of Toy Used During Play With the Quantity and Quality of Parent-Infant Communication Tablets out, imagination in: the schools

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Play & Movement

Play & Movement Sparing chores spoils children and their future selves, study says( 2005) The Play Deficit (2013) Want kids to listen more, fidget less? Try more recess… this school did (2016) What to Say When Your Kid Says “I’m Bored” (2016) What does play look like? (2015) Make Time For Play: How To Balance

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Recommended Reading on Waldorf Early Childhood Education

WECAN recommended reading Almon, Joan, ed. An Overview of the Waldorf Kindergarten, and A Deeper Understanding of the Waldorf Kindergarten, WECAN Books. Baldwin, Sarah, Nurturing Children and Families: One Model of a Parent-Child Program in a Waldorf School, WECAN Books. Foster, Nancy, In a Nutshell: Dialogues with Parents at Acorn Hill, a Waldorf Kindergarten, WECAN Books. Glöckler, Michaela, The

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