Many parents believe their children will be better socialized by going to daycare, preschool or full-day kindergarten. But according to Dr. Neufeld, these children become more social for all the wrong reasons, and at a great cost.
Dr. Neufeld points to "three indicators of developmental readiness that would totally transform our understanding of when to send a child to school".
Fifty years ago, North American education took a huge swing toward a learning theory approach. The growing body of developmental science was ignored in all but the top universities.