Word: preschoolers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rude awakening soon after: the show was awful. Some other undergrads shared their own favorite cartoons from bygone years. Sophia P. Snyder ‘07 I didn’t watch T.V. – I wasn’t allowed. My mom was a preschool teacher and she thought little kids have enough fantasy in their heads already. The only T.V. in my house was a tiny black-and-white set in my parents’ room. I played with the toys with my friends, though...there was some show with princesses, “Lady Lovely Locks...
...When he was little, before preschool, there were things that he liked because they were the things he liked. They weren't boy things. As soon as he got to school, everything that he liked became a boy thing. He happens to be a little stereotypical boy's boy, and so the stuff he liked...suddenly you get to school and everything's gendered. They might as well be speaking French in preschool to kids. Everything is a boy things or a girl thing, and marriage was a girl thing. Weddings were a girl thing. It was about princesses...
Researchers conducted four tests on five-year-old preschool children, according to co-author Elizabeth S. Spelke, who is Berkman Professor of Psychology. In one test studying comparison abilities, subjects were shown an array of blue dots on a laptop screen, Spelke wrote in an e-mail. The blue dots were obscured, and then a cluster of red dots appeared. The children were asked if there were more blue or red dots...
...mention our preschool meeting with the guidance counselor last spring? My son happily chatted away for 10 minutes, and then the counselor, having got a nice sense of him--"you seem like a fun guy,'' she said--turned to me: "Any questions...
...what, and how much, they should eat, and also train other teachers who can then incorporate the healthy-eating mantra into their classes. School lunches now replace unhealthy foods like French fries with vegetables such as beans. Children in the district also dig into a healthy preschool breakfast buffet intended to supplement the breakfast they ate - or sometimes did not eat - at home. The results have been spectacular. The number of obese French kids - children are defined as obese if they are 20% or more above the recommended weight for their height and age - has doubled from...