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Encourage your preschool child to discover that there should be no distinction between learning and fun. The child’s quest to satisfy the needs of success/worth, fun/enjoyment, freedom/choice, and belonging/respect/love forms the basis for healthy development and life-long learning.

Our mission is to help your preschooler build knowledge and critical thinking by providing you, the child’s caregiver, with entertaining programs that teach foundational skills in reading, language arts, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These fact-filled learning adventures enhance the preschooler’s self-concept, require the preschooler to share the thinking, and (by providing selected choices) allow for shared control that avoids intimidation.

Young children are vulnerable to self-blame that can results in a sense of helplessness which diminishes achievement. When adverse events (such as the parent’s displeasure, ridicule of other children, low scores, poor showing in competition, shouting from the caregiver, or the ‘birch rod’) are used rather than positive reinforcement, the results are anxieties, boredom, and aggression rather than reinforced learning. The use of natural consequences, rather than punishment, develops a sense of belonging, freedom, power, and fun that enables the child to make good personal choices, take responsibility for their own actions, and instigate needed personal growth. Adults asking questions, (helping children think through problem solving with hands on experiences) develops critical, logical thinking and positive social bonds. Allowing children to solve problems anyway they want, (as long as it does not hurt anyone else), enhances their self-esteem, avoids intimidation, allows for natural consequences, and requires the child to consider multiple possibilities and outcomes. Thereby, developing the child’s own ability to solve problems, to talk to others, to share, to have empathy, and generally to like others.

Our goal is to give you, the caregiver, age-appropriate educational tools to provide your preschool child with an enriching, fun, non-violent environment, where they can test themselves by figuring out new ways to use what they have learned about themselves and the world around them. These age-appropriate educational tools are based on 2009 ITEEA educational standards which support a child’s physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development. This material is a result of academic research begun by Shirley Mullinax in 2006, originally available at URL http://www4.ncsu.edu/~stmullin/Home.html.

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