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“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.”

Erika Christakis, The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
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The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups by Erika Christakis
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