Why Group Daycare Can Help Advance Your Childs Learning

[mimi]

I was born in the sixties. This was the era when Mom opened up the door in the morning and said see you at lunch. After lunch, it was I'll call you when supper is ready (yelling out the front door). My friends and I played all day actively using our imaginations to create all sorts of play scenarios in our minds with our toys and without toys.
We didn't have kindergarden in the province I lived in then, and my parents certainly didn't teach me my abc's or how to write my name before I entered grade 1, that was what school was for.
My parents didn't coddle me, did support my learning by helping me with my homework when I struggled and limited my toy collection due to finances, so my imagination and friends continued to entertain me.
I did well in school, learning to read and reading to the class in a couple of months.
My point is, let kids be kids, let them PLAY, watch them play and you see how much they are teaching themselves and you can see how much they watch the adults around them and try to copy them. We hoover way too much and by doing so still the imagination in the kids.

Today my dck's are going to collect some leaves and glue them to paper to make a collage and we will talk about how the colder nights are making the leaves turn colour ..........and then they will play.