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Educational Wooden Toys for Healthy Minds

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Educational Wooden Toys for Healthy Minds

Educational wooden toys for healthy minds, and what are some of the things you want your child to learn through play? Many – if not most – parents want for their children’s toys to encourage healthy mental development and motor skills. But many modern toys “spoon feed” entertainment to children without enhancing their individual cognitive or motor skills. Rather than encourage creativity, many toys today aim only to entertain, and in a particular way predetermined by the toy makers. Here are some of the current problems we see with today’s toys, brought to you by commercialism, USA.

* Toys based on movies limit children to using pre-fabricated characters and plots, thus stunting imagination and creativity growth.

* Electronic toys may claim educational value, but that education may be limited to alphabet letters that light up or speakers that announce the name of an animal when a certain button is pushed.

* There is growing concern over the toxicity of the plastics used to make toys. PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is environmentally toxic to produce and contains chemicals (adipates and phthalates) that can leach into foods and, of course, into your child or baby’s mouth, especially when they like to play with them in their mouth! Continue Reading Educational Wooden Toys for Healthy Minds Here

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Posted by admin - September 23, 2010 at 8:13 am

Categories: New Philosophies Children, New Philosophies Education Tags: child, children, development, educational, educational wooden toys, environment, healthy, minds, skills, toys, wooden, wooden toys

Unschooling – A New Approach to Teaching and Learning

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Unschooling, a new approach to teaching and learning

Unschooling is an interesting term that has a tendency to defy a precise definition. Like “unchaining” or “unleashing,” unschooling is an “un” with a positive connotation.

Essentially, unschooling is an unconventional approach to educating kids that does not follow the institutional school model. Unschoolers do not use a traditional curriculum like homeschoolers do. The core belief of this philosophy is that the child has a natural curiosity and drive to learn – they are always learning and the unschooler’s job is to encourage them.

To understand better what this philosophy entails, here are some things that unschooling is, and some things it is not.

What Unschooling Is Not

* Neglectful – The one who unschools his kids is in frequent interaction with them. He is well aware of laws and requirements that his children will have to answer to, and unschools accordingly. Continue Reading Unschooling – A New Approach to Teaching and Learning Here

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Posted by admin - September 19, 2010 at 2:27 pm

Categories: New Philosophies Education Tags: child, children, kids, Learn, learning, natural, parents, philosophy, unschool, unschooling

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