KIDS R KIDS Early Learning Ctr Parent Program Handbook (previously known as Parent Policy Manual)

ARTICLES ON PLAY BASED LEARNING BEING BEST!!!!  BETTER THAN ACADEMIC! 

• The New Deficiency, Formerly Know as "Childhood"
• Finnish Kids Don't Learn To Read In Kindergarten. They Turn Out Great Anyway.
• If We Know Play-Based Learning Works, Why Don't We Do It?
• Children Should Work Less Hard and Play More at School, Says Headteachers leader.
• How Todays Preschoolers Are Actually Harming Kids
• The Process Of Art
• Worksheets Don't Work Try Reggio Inspired Mathematics 
• First day of kindergarten: A key transition
• Modern parenting may hinder brain development
• The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues
• schemasin children's play
• What is a Provocation? | Reggio Inspired Learning
• Outdoor learning in the early years
• Seeing the Brilliance of Children – Understanding Brain Development
• Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
• The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders: Peter Gray at TEDxNavesink
• The importance of destructive play for babies and toddlers
• Message in a Backpack™ Things Every Parent Should Know about Play
• How America Killed Play—and What We Can Do to Bring it Back
• Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum
• THE SCRIBBLE: WORTH A CLOSER LOOK
• Here's what a four-year-old should know
• The following documents and articles contain some great resourcesand information on the importance of play, process (vs. product) art, loose parts, and the Reggio Emilia and Forest School approaches 
• How does playing with dirt support our play-based curriculum?
• The Cost of Ignoring Developmentally Appropriate Practice
• Remembering the Soulfulness of Play ~ Trusting the Intelligence of Play to Raise a Child
• Research finds no advantage in learning to read from age five
• Why a seemingly chaotic pre-K class may be the best kind
• 7 Awesome Reasons Why Kids Need To Get Muddy
• Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
• New research finds more 'Power' in 'Play' than originally believed
• The Cruel Assertion That Your Five-Year-Old Is "Falling Behind"
• In Conversation With Sudeshna Chatterjee, On A Child’s Right To Play
• 40 Astounding Benefits of Outdoor Nature Play for Kids
• Risk: An essential ingredient in children’s play
• Unicef finds Hong Kong parents value free play for their children (but don’t really know what it is)
• Rethinking Risk: The importance of outdoor risky play for children’s health

BLOCK PLAY

• Block Play:  Experiences in Cooperative Learning and Living by Sally Cartwright , Child Care Information Exchange 5/95 :  pgs 39 - 40

SCREEN TIME

• Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, Crazy, and Lazy
• Derby school urges parents to put down phones and talk to children
• Giving Your Child a Smartphone Is “Like Giving Them Drugs,” Says Top Addiction Expert
• Screen-time is associated with inattention problems in preschoolers: Results from the CHILD birth cohort study

MISC

• 4 Things Children Don't Need (And a Few They do)
• The Struggle Is... OK in Early Childhood Education 
• How Saying "Good Job" with Your Children is NOT GOOD! 
• Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads
• Children should learn about ‘stable and healthy same-sex relationships’, guidance says
• We Should Treat Early Childhood Educators as Valued Employees
• Toddlers Want to Help and We Should Let Them
• Infancy and early childhood matter so much because of attachment
• Learned Helplessness: Let’s Not Foster It in Children!
• How Mister Rogers became a timeless oracle of parenting wisdom
• Is love the same as care?
• Many Youngsters Aren't Ready for Kindergarten
• Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends
• Why You Should Care That Fewer Kids Are Riding Bikes
• Making a Mess of Human Development: The Terrible Impact of Our Choices for Children
• Preschool teachers ask children too many simple questions
• YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD’S DINOSAUR OBSESSION
• Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders

BEHAVIORS

• Dear Parent:  About that KID
• You’re Not A Bad Mother, You’re Just Human
• Calming Your Clingy Child
• Stop Making Everything Perfect for Your Kid
•  Kicking kids out of preschool is damaging, experts say. So why is it still happening?
• 2-year-olds aren’t terrible—they’re just learning how to be human

LOOSE PARTS

• Loose Parts: What does this mean?, Better Kid Care, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences

BARE FEET RESOURCES

• Why Barefoot is Best for Children
• 5 Reasons to Let Children Go Barefoot
• You Walk Wrong

MULTI-AGE GROUPING ARTICLES

• Multi-Age Care:  An Enriching Experience, CRC Bulletin #408
• An Eye on Early Learning and Child Care in Manitoba:  Multi-age Groups Learning and Growing Child Care Centre, page 1-2
• Determining Groups:  Who Goes With Whom?  Chapter 5, Prime Times by Jim Greenman and Anne Stonehouse, Redleaf Press, 1996, pgs. 52-56
• Multiage Classes Information for Parents
• Multiage Grouping in Child Care, AQM:  Association quebecoise pour le multiage
• Multiage Learning and Teaching (Early Years Curriculum Materials) Queensland Government, pg. 1 -4
• Teaching Siblings Together (Smile on Your Brother) by Paula Carter, Young Children, September 2008

  ROUTINES

• The Most Powerful Family Ritual? The Bedtime Story
• Instead Of Telling Your Kids To Clean Up, Try This Instead
• Toilet Training in One Simple Step