A preschool program that has a play centered curriculum, not an academic centered curriculum should be the focus of all preschools. The term play used in this instance refers to a safe structured environment for children to explore, create, and develop. Preschool children learning at this age level are playing to develop and teach their brain how to grasp basic concepts so they can learn at the academic level. Preschool children need to be exposed to play in order to gain the developmental skills used to acquire the knowledge to understand academic concepts. Parents looking for academic preschools for their toddlers are often confused by the hype that all children should read, write, and do basic math by the time they reach kindergarten.
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Still, the controversy of play before academic learning exists. Preschools are being critiqued by parents who have high academic expectations for their child. The influence of social and media pressure causes parents to fall into the trap of pushing their toddlers to compete to get ahead for future education. Those three little words, “let’s go play,” have now taken on a whole new meaning in the lives of preschool children. In today’s society both parents often must work full time and preschool has become normal for babies as well as toddlers. In the past children stayed home until they were six or seven and then they were put into primary schools. Preschool, not just childcare, has developed over the last several years to cater to the ever growing needs of today’s parents of preschoolers.
Preschool parents feeling the push by society to have the smartest child on the block want their preschooler to excel at academics. There is now pressure from the parents for preschool teachers to prove what a child is learning. Parents of preschoolers are now planning their child’s college experience before the child is even in primary school. What most parents of preschool children don’t understand is that children need to be exposed to play in order to gain the developmental building blocks of academic
Still, the controversy of play before academic learning exists. Preschools are being critiqued by parents who have high academic expectations for their child. The influence of social and media pressure causes parents to fall into the trap of pushing their toddlers to compete to get ahead for future education. Those three little words, “let’s go play,” have now taken on a whole new meaning in the lives of preschool children. In today’s society both parents often must work full time and preschool has become normal for babies as well as toddlers. In the past children stayed home until they were six or seven and then they were put into primary schools. Preschool, not just childcare, has developed over the last several years to cater to the ever growing needs of today’s parents of preschoolers.
Preschool parents feeling the push by society to have the smartest child on the block want their preschooler to excel at academics. There is now pressure from the parents for preschool teachers to prove what a child is learning. Parents of preschoolers are now planning their child’s college experience before the child is even in primary school. What most parents of preschool children don’t understand is that children need to be exposed to play in order to gain the developmental building blocks of academic