Blog – Start Early

Feb

How Adults Communicate Bias to Children

By Jill Suttie This article originally appeared on Greater Good, the online magazine of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. A new study suggests preschoolers can “catch”...

Feb

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Supporting Dads who support children

‘Dad’s don’t babysit’ was the loud-and-proud slogan of a t-shirt in early 2016, posted on the discussion website, Reddit. ‘Dad’s don’t babysit’ was followed with...

Dec

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Building belonging and respect in early childhood settings

We know that children begin to notice the ways they are the same, as well as the ways they are different, from a young age...

Dec

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Early childhood is the ideal setting for learning about rights and respect

In 1948, the international community, through the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, affirmed that each and every one of us should have access to...

Nov

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Children exposed to violence

This week marks White Ribbon Day (25 November 2016), a day that asks men to think about the women in their own lives and take...

Nov

By Clare McHugh

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Start early. Start specific.

Although I felt I knew a lot of the information provided it was really good to reflect and remind myself of how important it is...

Jul

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Curly questions about play

An insightful blog post by Karen Hope challenged educators to think about the props and equipment that form part of the ‘vibrant and flexible spaces’...

Jun

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Empathy: a 21st century skill at home and at large

It’s easy to dismiss toy aisle choices as political correctness yet, as every early childhood educator knows, play-based learning is how children acquire skills. And empathy is...