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		<title>Baby brains at risk</title>
		<link>http://homeschoolhomefrontier.com/2010/baby-brains-at-risk</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I picked up an article in TIME expressing concern over the driven child, children &#8211; and babies &#8211; pushed to artificially pump up their IQ. Looking back (the piece was first published in 2001!), this disturbing trend has continued and  many homeschoolers with young children or infants have not been spared either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s minding our child minders?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk about expanding preschool enrolment in the country is anyone asking what’s being done about the danger of child abuse and how to keep these centres safe? While the growing numbers of reported child abuse did not necessarily take place in kindergartens and playschools,  recent news of an alleged sex offender operating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All eyes on preschool education&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics and by-elections grab so much of our attention some of us may have missed this remark by the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who is also our Education Minister. It appears the Ministry of Education is concerned that a mere 67% of children starting Year One have had a preschool education. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with infants and toddlers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING IT UP by Jeanie Hurley Playing is the most natural thing in the world, but there&#8217;s much more to it than just having fun. Jeanie Hurley investigates the role of play in development from newborn baby to boisterous pre-schooler to see why playing is never a waste of time. CHILDREN JUST LOVE TO PLAY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A child&#8217;s work is play</title>
		<link>http://homeschoolhomefrontier.com/2009/a-childs-work-is-play</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DAVID BC TAN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The child’s play is important in his development. As a matter of fact, play for the small child is his work– a means of achieving better and better skills to do the things he sees older children and adults do. Raymond &#38; Dorothy Moore (Better Late than Early) IT WAS OUR OLDEST SON&#8217;S FIRST VISIT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicked out of kindy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this news report from the Baltimore Sun about the first nationwide research conducted by Yale University&#8217;s Child Study Center on preschool expulsion: After surveying 52 state-financed prekindergarten programs in 40 states, the study found that about 10 percent of teachers had expelled at least one child in the previous year and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Good Intentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following reflection grew out of a workshop on Theology of the Child organised by Baptist Theological Seminary (Nov 1 &#38; 2), and a dialogue on (Nov 3), kindly put together by Penang homeschoolers. Both meetings were held on the island during the recent Deepavali break] We had just finished introducing ourselves when a gentleman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding balance in a hurried world</title>
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		<comments>http://homeschoolhomefrontier.com/2002/finding-balance-in-a-hurried-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the course of the new year, we have had the opportunity to meet with new homeschooling families, either in their homes or in ours. Like most eager homeschoolers taking the first steps into an undiscovered country, conviction is usually greater than confidence. That could just as well describe our own state of mind when [...]]]></description>
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