Early Years Learning
In this period of forced downtime, thanks to theCOVID-19 outbreak, I was frequently taken back to the ‘Pooh way of life’ – thinking of simple things to do at home with the people who matter ...
Does your little one cry when you take away the iPad? Is there always a constant battle over spending time on gadgets? Are your children demanding their very own phones at an early age?
In 1999, Sugata Mitra, the man behind the very famous ‘hole in the wall’ experiment demonstrated that children of any age, group, caste, creed, culture, and socio economic status can learn to operate a computer ...
Alison Gopnik, one of the most eminent developmental psychologists, uses a wonderful analogy in the book ‘The Gardener and the Carpenter’ to illuminate the role of a parent. She opines that there are two broad ...