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I know my kids will learn their ABCs and their shapes and their colors. Eventually. Right now I really want to stimulate a love of discovery and a fascination with play.
The latest issue of Cookie magazine has a wonderful feature on a Brooklyn preschool that puts its primary focus on nurturing children's imaginations. They study fine art. They take make-believe trips. They do interpretive dances with scarves while a visiting violinist plays tunes. There's nary a flashcard in sight.
I love the concept. But is this really "learning"?
"You get kids to learn by fostering their imaginations -- by encouraging them to bend the questions, to assume there's something more than the information given to them," Khahtee Turner, who founded the school, Studio Creative Play, told the magazine.
Want to spark your kid's imagination? Here are some suggestions Turner gave the magazine's readers:
_ First thing in the morning, ask your...
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