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Parenting This kind of helicopter parenting is a relatively new phenomena. Roger Hart, a British geography student, decided in 1972 to write his dissertation about the movement of 86 elementary school kids in Vermont. Over the course of two years, he created a geographical map of children that showed where and how far they typically traveled from home (Rosin). By today’s standards this sounds slightly creepy, but this instinctual negative reaction actually illustrates a very important point…

The four stages are: Birth – two years - sensorimotor stage, two years to seven years – preoperational stage, seven years to eleven years – concrete operational stage, and eleven years to fifteen years – formal operational stage. This paper will address a classroom designed to benefit the development of toddlers who are in the preoperational stage (Lefrancois, 2012). Children in the early preoperational stage are extremely egocentric; that is they are unable to think about things from any…