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Erika Christakis
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November 2015
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“Indeed, playing games and laughing together are far more educational than drilling kids on their ABCs on the way to daycare.”
― The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups
― The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups
“Pretending is an essential language of childhood.”
― The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
― The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
“Playing grocery store is actually better for brain development than a math work sheet with cartoon shopping carts? It has to be some kind of trick. Yet after decades of research, the benefits of play are so thoroughgoing, so dispositive, so well described that the only remaining question is how so many sensible adults sat by and allowed the building blocks of development to become so diminished.”
― The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
― The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
