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| 43 of 47 people found the following review helpful  If you work with Preschoolers, By A Customer This review is from: Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk (Paperback) If you work with preschoolers, you probably have been presured to do activities and/or lessons that are not age appropriate. This book will help you explain what your are doing and why. It also will help you revise your program elimnating some activities and goals and replacing them with better activities and goals. 48 of 54 people found the following review helpful  Right on Target!, By P-Town Mom (Pleasanton, CA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk (Paperback) Dr. Elkind is not suggesting that young children should not be taught. Instead he is educating the public on the *appropriate* way to teach these very special members of our population. He offers nine pages of notes/bibliography to support his sound child development theories. At the time of publication he had logged in about 25 years in the early childhood field, which I think makes him an "expert". I have a degree in e.c.e. & taught pre-k for over a decade. Trust me, this book is right on target. I highly recommend it, especially for parents who are feeling pressured to have "superkids". 103 of 129 people found the following review helpful Miseducation:Preschoolers at Risk, by David Elkind, By Shelley Sharp (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews This review is from: Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk (Paperback) In the "Questions Parents Ask" section of this book Mr. Elkind is asked: "So what is going to happen? According to you, we are miseducating large numbers of young children, so what does this mean with regard to the future?" Mr. Elkind answers: "I have no crystal ball...My guess is that the teenagers of the nineties will be more neurotic than teenagers today. They will show more obsessions, more compulsions, more phobias, more psychosomatic symptoms than do teenagers today. ...What I cannot really predict is the extent of the problem." This book was published in 1987. The preschoolers of that time are today's teenagers - the same teenagers who are bringing guns to school and killing their teachers and classmates. While I believe the causes for these horrific behaviors are manifold, I also believe Mr. Elkind has made a valid point, he certainly has my attention. |
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