Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.” — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning. — David Elkind Copy Share Image
In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
