In her interview with ABC Radio, childhood educator and author Danielle Lindner discusses respect, tolerance, and equal opportunity regardless of gender in today’s schools.
The preschool years are some of the most wonderful and scariest times for parents, especially if it’s the first child they are sending to school. I receive a lot of questions from parents, from “How do I handle separation anxiety?” to “What do I do if my child hasn’t seemed to make many friends?”
Laughter… Absolutely the most wonderful, joyous, loud laughter filling the halls, and where was it coming from? A preschool chemistry class. What? How could that be? Were the kids making funny faces? Had someone slipped on a banana peel?
Neither. These happy, hysterical preschoolers were spending the morning at The London Day School learning about polymers with volunteers from BASF. And this wasn’t the first time they had the chance to dive into the world of chemistry, as BASF has been working with students at my school since 2012 and loving every minute of it… Click here to read the full article