Description:
It is time to put our most hard-held assumptions about children, parenting and education to the test of current science: and when we do so, we will find how erroneous some of those assumptions can be. For example, did you know:
-that exposing kids to day to day marital conflict may actually be good for them?
-that tests for gifted schools identify appropriate children only 37% of the time?
-that young children are more aggressive after watching television shows like Arthur than Power Rangers?
-that exposure to a maximum of spoken words is not the key to early language adaption in young children but rather it is in the timing of a parents touch?
-that cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated?
It is time to think more deeply and clearly about childrenso we can create homes, schools and programs out of information and not folklore.
Speaker(s):
Po Bronson, writer, New York Magazine and The Guardian in the United Kingdom
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