Comments on: The Purpose Of Preschool http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/ 2 parents, 5 kids, organised chaos Mon, 21 May 2012 07:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: 10 Popular Posts On Planning With Kids | Planning With Kidshttp://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/comment-page-1/#comment-131682 10 Popular Posts On Planning With Kids | Planning With Kids Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:45:36 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/#comment-131682 [...] Posts – Reader FeedbackCan Women Have It all???10 Things I Like To Keep In My Everyday BagThe Purpose Of Preschool10 Things We Should Never Say To Kids10 Circuit Breakers To Prevent Those Family Melt Down [...] [...] Posts – Reader FeedbackCan Women Have It all???10 Things I Like To Keep In My Everyday BagThe Purpose Of Preschool10 Things We Should Never Say To Kids10 Circuit Breakers To Prevent Those Family Melt Down [...]

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]]> By: louhttp://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/comment-page-1/#comment-541 lou Fri, 02 May 2008 07:38:38 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/#comment-541 Thanks for your blog it is such a fresh approach to Mothers issues, my husband even admitted to reading it when he couldn't get to sleep the other night! Our eldest who is now at school, often says to his little brother 'you are so lucky to be at kinder still, you can just play all day and you don't have to do any work'. Which I think is a lovely reflection of his years at kinder, because there was so much exploration and so many fun activities that he didn't even realise he was learning. He would go back in a flash, not because he dislikes school but because it was such a fantastic year of learning through play. Most kids learn very quickly to follow the rules when they get to school, I don't think kinder needs to be structured like school.In my opinion a good kinder gives them freedom to explore and develop social, emotional and personal skills not just that they will need to continue developing for the rest of their lives. Thanks for your blog it is such a fresh approach to Mothers issues, my husband even admitted to reading it when he couldn’t get to sleep the other night!

Our eldest who is now at school, often says to his little brother ‘you are so lucky to be at kinder still, you can just play all day and you don’t have to do any work’. Which I think is a lovely reflection of his years at kinder, because there was so much exploration and so many fun activities that he didn’t even realise he was learning. He would go back in a flash, not because he dislikes school but because it was such a fantastic year of learning through play.

Most kids learn very quickly to follow the rules when they get to school, I don’t think kinder needs to be structured like school.In my opinion a good kinder gives them freedom to explore and develop social, emotional and personal skills not just that they will need to continue developing for the rest of their lives.

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