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Demystifying the Preschool Years
Knopf
July 2007
On Sale: July 24, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0307263541
EAN: 9780307263544
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The directors of one of the country’s most admired
preschools, the 92nd Street Y Nursery School in New York
City, draw on their fifty years of combined experience—as
educators, admissions directors, parents, and respected
leaders in early education—to give parents of children
between the ages of three and five the guidance they need to
feel confident and empowered. Authoritative, comprehensive,
and tremendously reassuring, here’s a no-nonsense guide to
navigating nursery school life both at home and in the
classroom, and a celebration of a very special time in the
life of a child. The early years of childhood are a singular time in the life
of a family, a period of unparalled growth and discovery for
parents as well as for children. It’s a time of unique
closeness, of physical and emotional intimacy and intensity.
And it’s at precisely this time that a child today takes his
or her first steps into the world beyond the cocoon of home
and family. This can be exciting, gratifying, glorious; it
can also be a source of ambivalence and anxiety. For many
parents, letting go of our children is one of the greatest
challenges we’ll ever face. Nancy Schulman and Ellen Birnbaum’s Practical Wisdom for
Parents is a response to the hunger for practical
information that accompanies this incomparable epoch in the
life of a child, the result of thousands of relationships
with young children and their families. What should we look
for in a preschool? How can we best assess what kind of
preschool is right for our child? How can we help our
children prepare for the increasingly pressurized interview
process, and how can we prepare for it ourselves? What are
the most effective and painless strategies for separation,
discipline, toilet training, and bedtime? How can we
stimulate our children without overscheduling them, and
where should we draw the line? What are the best books,
toys, and activities at every stage, and how can we best
support and encourage a child’s early social and
intellectual development, at home as well as at school? In the classroom, in parent workshops, in the admissions
office, and as parents themselves, Nancy Schulman and Ellen
Birnbaum have devoted their lives to listening to and
understanding children between the ages of three and five.
Practical Wisdom for Parents is as warm and humorous as it
is reassuring and wise: a marvelous resource from two
experienced, knowledgeable educators.
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