This age is all about expression, when kids really start to form their own ideas about what they want to play and how they want to create. Every day in our preschool classroom, your child will explore science experiments, create artwork, and play pretend—all the skills needed for their bi...
Every summer when we visit my sister in Cape Cod Mark nearly drives off the road laughing when he sees the sign for this one hair salon. It’s called ‘Egads!’ It’s impressive that such a poorly-named business has lasted so long. And it brings us no end of entertainment. No matter...
Given the results of this study, we can speculate that before age 5 years, when brain networks are developing rapidly,86,87 caution is warranted, noting the postulate attributed to Donald Hebb: “neurons that fire together, wire together.”42 We believe multiyear studies are needed to explore ...
and tolerance toward the remaining social behaviors. The relatively few sex differences converge with the idea that teachers’ training and experience may counteract sex stereotypes relating to children’s social behaviors [1,5,6]. Nevertheless, these findings need to be interpreted with caution, sinc...
Moreover, despite the adoption of validated, standardized questionnaires provides reliable results, the lack of an age-matched, control group asks for caution in generalizing our findings. While we controlled for possible effects of background demographic and clinical variables, our sample size ...
Background: Interventions within preschool settings have gained prominence due to the need to increase physical activity (PA) in early childhood. We first developed a 10-week preschool-based behaviour change intervention, guided by the UK Medical Researc