kristine_elen
12-02-2003, 11:38 AM
Today's parents are trying to do it right: Mozart for the baby in utero, educational toys for the toddler, spelling software for the aspiring kindergartner. Modern American parenting has become an expensive and often exhausting investment in a stellar future.
"Everybody wants to have a kid that no employer will ever let go and no college will ever say no to," says Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, director of the Infant Language Project at the University of Delaware. The problem, she says, is that we are really working against these goals. In the recently published book Einstein Never Used Flash Cards (Rodale, $22.95), Golinkoff and coauthor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Infant Language Laboratory at Temple University, make the case for a simpler approach.
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031208/misc/8einstein.htm
"Everybody wants to have a kid that no employer will ever let go and no college will ever say no to," says Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, director of the Infant Language Project at the University of Delaware. The problem, she says, is that we are really working against these goals. In the recently published book Einstein Never Used Flash Cards (Rodale, $22.95), Golinkoff and coauthor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Infant Language Laboratory at Temple University, make the case for a simpler approach.
(see link for full article...)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031208/misc/8einstein.htm