Froebel’s Kindergarten: The Origins of Early Childhood Education

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In 1838 the German educator Friedrich Fröbel laid the foundations of modern education when he opened the Play and Activity Institute. He soon called it Kindergarten, reflecting his belief that young children should be nurtured and nourished ‘like plants in a garden’. #kindergarten #learn #teach #sproutslearning
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Chapters:
0:00 Foundations of modern education
0:25 Fröbel's Kindergarten
0:55 "Frei-Arbeit" - Free Work
1:23 Fröbel's Gifts
1:48 Kindergartens blossom
2:13 Dark times
2:34 Kindergartens shut down
2:49 Froebel's grief and the diaspora of thought
3:21 Fröbel's Gifts rediscovered
3:42 Frank Lloyd Wright
4:11 Return to a better future
4:36 On children's minds and souls
5:11 How about you?
5:37 Our amazing patrons
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[@sprouts]

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[@caffeineshots8451]

Which software u use for drawing ???

[@Padhle-bro]

@@caffeineshots8451 I also want to know it

[@photosfms657]

Me too.

[@cartergomez5390]

This is very beneficial to my career as a cognitive studies expert. I will support you as soon as I can!

[@sprouts]

@@cartergomez5390 thank you Carter!

[@Akhilesh1729]

Friedrich Fröbel had a beautiful mind.❣️

[@marylynneosborn5851]

I did not attend Kindergarten. I spent my time in free play at home with my brothers and my mother. When I began first grade, I did not know the alphabet or numbers, or even recognize my written name. Within three weeks, at six years old, I was the top reader in the class and I learned writing and numbers with ease. Free play is critical for healthy overall development and developmental readiness is imperative for formal learning.

[@sprouts]

Great story. Reach out if you want to help us convince all the teachers, policy makers, and parents out there!

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

It must be nice to be rich enough that you can stay home with your kids

[@marylynneosborn5851]

@@thepinkestpigglet7529 How presumptive and hateful of you to assume I have ever been wealthy! I grew up poor and have never had enough money, but I was rich with adults who nurtured me at home and in school. I'm sorry you weren't. The points of my comments are free play and developmental readiness.

[@bboicrazy8]

That's lovely for you and indeed play is important for learning (I actually worked in a children's museum and do interactive history education for children). Some kids don't have many opportunities for play in their household either because of caregiver's work schedule, unsafe environment, and other reasons. Some children also have very limited encounters with reading (moreso being read to) at home which has shown to greatly decrease reading ability later in life and also effect performance in school as well.

[@johnboy5483]

Are you seriously comparing yourself to a concept from the 18th century? A time when children were sometimes tied to benches in schools?

[@hakimdiwan5101]

It's ironical how kindergartens are doing everything opposite of Frobel. In my school we spent most of the time learning alphabets and rarely went outside and even when we did there was no "garden" it was just a sand and we used to play local games on our own till time was up.

[@sprouts]

I know :(

[@Lucas-vv7lw]

Have I missed something, but Kindergarten and school are not the same thing right? 😅 In school we learned the alphabet and only had some time outside but the real kindergarten we were outside almost all the time (in summer of course) and went into a nearby forest 2 times a week 😅

[@hakimdiwan5101]

@@Lucas-vv7lw You are lucky. I'm from India and our education system is centuries behind and a load of crap. First world countries enjoy much better quality of education than third world countries.

[@simranchauhan9390]

@@hakimdiwan5101 I am from India too. Idk how your childhood went but when I was in kindergarten, I spent way too much time playing outside. The real struggle started a lil later.

[@hakimdiwan5101]

@@simranchauhan9390 I studied in rural area under SSC private school but it was cheaper than most of urban private schools. Apart from higher fees and English as main language there was not much difference between my school and typical government school. In short infrastructure of our school was in shambles and so was the condition of so called playground.

[@Wirewrap36]

I was fascinated by technology ever since i could point my finger at things. There was a technical corner in my kindergarden where we could tear apart old apliances. I met my best friend there and we disasembled, examined and collected various electronical parts that we later used to asemble simple contraptions. I learned to use hand tools and solder before i could tie my shoes or write. We are 28 now. He's the owner of a industrial motor and pump repair buisness and i'm an engineer at Rimac.

[@fernandaabreu5625]

Inspiring and sweet!

[@jahanarafaizal2023]

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[@Jamalquentinjr]

Exactly. I can tell you a different side of the coin. My parents were young when I was born, my father learned and mastered mechanic work , he knew construction amongst other things, hell he was a good salesman. He taught me none of this. At age 20 I got turned down at a job for not knowing how to read a tape measure. My father actually got fired many times for sleeping with the Boss' wives and his coworkers all the time, got fired at the mechanic shop for being irresponsible because he was busy chasing pussy but that's another aspect of how it affected my life. Point is that I had to learn basic skills that he could've taught me but didn't. My hardships allowed me to grow I became good at managing people because my social skills were constantly developing due to my curiosity. I'm a father now I have twins and my 18 month old babies are very independent and good listeners. I studied the texts and documents my momma got at her daycare job to apply it on my kids. Basically guides on how children learn at different ages. One thing I've always said is that it amazes me how people get so impressed when a video of a child doing something of intelligence or skill pops up on the internet as if it was something supernatural when in reality children are geniuses in my eyes. They're capable of learning things so fast and well if you take the time to teach them. My twins even love cleaning. It's a game to them. I got em small brooms to sweep with me. When they spill something I get 3 wipes one for each of us. As a single father with custody I also enjoy having full control over their development without a woman overprotecting them. I allow them to explore under my supervision

[@beatricepeter995]

"Playing...the highest expression of what is in a child 's soul " ,wholly agreed and recently experienced with one of my best little after school pupils She is excelling at school now

[@Sky_moondance]

My experience in kindergarten was horrible! 80s child here. I was/am a visual learner. They taught us colors by the spelling and sometimes would show me the name "purple " ...but in the color orange . I'd yell out orange and they told my mom I needed to be in "special needs" ... fast forward through the educational system I was told I had no future in science as I got a B in my chemistry class in High school. Then in my early 20s I wanted to get into medicine so I had to do my equivalent high school class/test in organic chemistry. Because of new computer programs and visual learning. I not only passed with a 94% ...but completed the course in 3 months as opposed to 6... that shows how discriminatory our educational systems have become. Don't ever believe that you can't! :)

[@sprouts]

What a great story! And still, so sad that the education system is so broken in most places.

[@caseofthis3014]

Oh god I'm so happy that you made it and believed in yourself !!!!!

[@captainzork6109]

They gave you a friggin' Stroop task on accident =.= Most adults have overlearned reading, and they can't help but read the words you put in front of their face. A Stroop task takes advantage of this. The task requires a list of colors, written with a different color. So, they give you the word "red", but the word itself is blue. The first time, you have to just read the words, which is easy when you're an adult. The second time, you have to *ignore * what the word says; instead, you have to say the color the word is written in. This tends to be much more difficult! ...except when you're a child. Because reading wasn't ingrained in your system yet, you enthusiasically blurted out the color of the word, instead of the color-word itself There's little evidence for being more or less capable with one particular style of learning or another. In my opinion, the most effective type of learning depends on the task and not on the person. But I could imagine you (and your mind) have a preference. And I imagine this would mean that if you're correctly instructed to do one way of learning or another, you'd be at least just as capable as anyone else. But perhaps if not, it may not have come as naturally to you to think of words the way they wanted you to So I think it's more accurate to say you have a visual predisposition, rather than that you are a visual learner per se ...if that makes sense ^^

[@fayethelightworker2975]

Froebel and M.Montessori are still the best kindergarten curriculum we ever knew.., 😊

[@fernandaabreu5625]

And no technology shit involved. Sorry, but I don't think it's a coincidence. Oh and please don't think I'm an old person reviving the days of yore; I'm barely into my 30s.

[@frankwhite9642]

I learned a lot of things about fröbel in my studies. His viewpoints were so advanced for his time and his own upbringing in contrast with what he taught, was really interesting.

[@mahnoorarshad6822]

Share your point of view What are the essential psychological considerations in Froebel’s philosophy???

[@dsmnproduction4044]

I can gladly say, since I’m working at a Fröbel Kindergarten (in Germany), That our institutions are more focused on letting them kids learn by doing things by themselves. And we still own more wood toys then plastic, and many of them are still shaped and colored like seen in nature.

[@mahnoorarshad6822]

Share your point of view What are the essential psychological considerations in Froebel’s philosophy???

[@anmoldeep2400]

What an interesting piece of history...thanks for the info...love from India❤️❤️

[@kumbaon]

My kindergarten experience absolutely shaped my skills today. Would not trade it for the world.

[@samickill9730]

"games and playing are typical and essential forms of life." I like this guy already.

[@nizaante7539]

These are indeed the facts of kindergarten__part of preschool. Thank you for this because it helped me reviewed a part of my ECE years ago. Thank you Mr. Friedrich Froebel of Germany.

[@jezzalexxipon4097]

Thank you for this. It is a big help for us who will take early childhood board exam next year. Rest assured your channel is already shared to my classmates and other students taking also other discipline.

[@yogalowpz4826]

What I remember about my kindergarden is that my teacher was very loving a as we grew we all went back to say hi to her.

[@sharonaetienne3191]

I always welcome my old students back to say hi...many of them have kids of their own now❤

[@SproutsEspañol]

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[@marie-francoiserama7052]

Play is a foundation for a child learning development. Piaget and Bruner support the work of Froebel and build their theory of learning upon his.

[@candelariavelmac9737]

I’m a kindergarten teacher in Mexico and I try to do my best putting Froebel’s ideas on my class, let the children play all around and let they learn by themselves but sometimes the parents prefer the hard study of numbers and letters that is so frustrating.

[@sprouts]

Don’t give up!

[@tamsynspackman7090]

I love Froebel's Mother Play songs and the accompanying writings. The moral lessons, coupled with the improved musical interpretations by Emilie Poulsson and her colleagues, have deeply enriched our homeschooling.

[@Jessi-44]

RIP Friedrich Froebel 😭You would've loved modern play centres.

[@sprouts]

True!

[@thisgirlisoverit]

this is a meme lol but it’s still true/cute 😂❤

[@murugesanperumal8386]

I went to LKG at a hill station called Shimla ( India) , our school was located down hill, I still remember my school uniform colour which was red, I went to Ukg in a town named Thanjavur ( Tamil Nadu) , I remember my school name" Stella Marries"and my friend who had a green and white folding pencil box and my Tamil teacher writing a Big" E" in Tamil on the black board ☺️

[@judysabas4125]

I loved kindergarten! My teacher was awesome and fun

[@abirdas7810]

I feel so deeply about this, I always think that studying is not a thing every kids will like. It's quite mundane for them. Playing makes them express their emotions and renovates their creative minds... With addition to Froebel's techniques I think team games like football can be a great place to teach them discipline and channel their emotions, it will also build a sense of togetherness and improve their social behaviour.

[@sprouts]

Yes yes yes 👏

[@hamuni81]

great work and nicely explained.

[@spinynorman1562]

Where I live (Australia), kindergarten is the first year of school. But there's a very strong movement to enrol children in PRE-school, from a very young age (as young as 6 months) because, we are told by the government and "experts", these are essential learning years and if a child doesn't attend preschool he or she will be at a disadvantage, not only in the first years of school, but for life! Which I think is absolute nonsense. And I believe the REAL reason parents are being pressured to send their children to preschool (also known as day care) is so that both parents can work.

[@kellifrumento8992]

I teach preschool and some of my children can read on a kinder level as well as writing their names, numbers and letters ....it builds their cognitive skills, comprehension with story time and reading. They build social skills and manners, They learn what most children do not if not at a preschool setting center. A daycare is when your child is being watched and taken care of..I do that too, but our main goal is teaching the children to get them ready for kindergarten. In June the PreK children graduate.

[@kellifrumento8992]

If they attend preschool they'll learn faster. A child's brain between 1 yr and 5 are like sponges. They take everything in. They can learn languages even if you will. I disagree I'm sorry, preschool molds a child for elementary school.

[@spinynorman1562]

@@kellifrumento8992 Sure, you can teach kids their ABC's and numbers at preschool, which gives them an advantage over kids who didn't go to preschool - AT FIRST! But once they get to school the kids who didn't go to preschool quickly catch up. It is NOT necessary to teach children to read at age 3 or 4. They'll learn faster at age 5 or 6. But I'm not saying there's anything wrong with preschool. I'm just saying that preschool is not essential for later learning and development. The child's intelligence and home life are much more important factors.

[@zainahibrahim]

Thank you, i will learnt more as i am dealing with early childhood since 1990

[@loengrind789]

My experience was building stories from what I learnt with what my mother read with me in 1001 nights and Grimms/Perrault fables, and other famous fantasy books, then applied to my games and toys. After that, my universes became more intricate each passing year, and at age 11 I had a fully consistent fantasy setup to write on. Nowadays, I started my current novelistic project in 2016; mine's a storyteller's soul built since I was three, in other kind of abstraction :p

[@fernandaabreu5625]

AHHH that's sweet and spectacular!

[@francorocket9908]

Thanks a lot for this information, I was looking for but I didn't know where to search

[@geneoluminology]

FROEBEL...DEAR FRIEND..a true hero

[@aungmyatmin9509]

I have learnt new knowledge from Sprouts for today. Learning history makes me give some pleasure! Thanks a lot, Sprouts!

[@sprouts]

Our pleasure!

[@WeaponGuy117]

Wonderful video as always, thank you.

[@sprouts]

Our pleasure!

[@stefgen04]

Wow love love this content!

[@disabledandproud5556]

I personally believe I learned more valuable lessons in K4 and K5 then I did in grade school (1st-12th). In kindergarten I learned things like how to listen to others and share my own thoughts. I learned it’s okay to not know things and that in truth we all are learning everyday. No one knows everything nor can anyone know everything. These are lessons I want future generations to know more than anything else. Yes, even over math, science and English. Because if we cannot share ideas and solutions to problems in our lives without calling each other names and getting into fights with each other, it doesn’t matter how right you are! You just look like a person who forgot the golden rule that keeps a society together.

[@sprouts]

Excellent point!

[@silverhiker4549]

Frobel is a cool dude an advertising always loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I had no idea that's where FLW got his ideas! Makes total sense. Thank you for this extremely informative video.

[@sprouts]

its' amazing how the two related.

[@sheejas9247]

I am a nursery teacher from India Thank you for the information Froebel is .a great man

[@Poppy-lk8sk]

I don't remember much about kindergarten but I do have some memories of being mad at the other kids who were not delicate with the books and toys and it would always upset me… And I got grounded a lot because I would beat the other kids who left stuffed animals in the dirt or tear and fold pages of the books x'D

[@blyat1]

You must be a housekeeper now

[@Poppy-lk8sk]

@@blyat1 No, studying to be a book publisher 😅

[@sprouts]

😂

[@havensohn3821]

Out of curiosity what course are you taking? Asking cause I kinda want to work in the literature industry hehehehe.

[@aservant1284]

Fröbel is a legend

[@littlechimes0987]

Amazing topic thank you for sharing 🙏

[@sprouts]

You are so welcome

[@rajnibajaj1967]

Very informative...Thanks

[@divyaghimire4799]

Beautiful...

[@StarlightNkyra]

Free play is the best of both worlds. It makes children happier and educates them, which in a lot of higher educational forms of traditional teaching, neither are present. (Yes high school, I'm mostly talking about you, even if that problem starts in middle school.)

[@eaglegoldengate4184]

Kindergarten didn't come to my school district until I started first grade. Since then, I have volunteered at the first Missouri kindergarten building, which also housed the Historical Society for that area. The classroom had many pictures of mothers loving their children. The kids also practiced drawing things, things like crystals or using tiny sticks to build them from a picture. It is said that cubism came out of this movement. Pestalozzi, Froebel's mentor, said that the best classroom was on the parent's lap. Institutionalization of young children is a communistic effort by Dewey and others. Children learn 80-95% more from those they trust and know that love them.

[@thepageantrycenter]

Informative! Next topic suggestions: 1. Social Learning theory - Albert Bandura 2. Cone of Experience- Edgar Dale

[@sprouts]

1, work in progess. 2, noted. Thanks 🙏

[@zulinhl]

so thats why some kindergartens have a small place with plants. I feel dumb that i didnt noticed that before. too bad that schools dont use those places as part of their education. I remember that my kindergarten had trees and grass, but It just was used as the place for recess (I didnt like it, kids used to play with bugs). I worked on a kindergarten and it also had a small place with grass, but again, it was just used to dry things made inside of the classroom.

[@khushboothakkar8]

Thanks

[@disrael2101]

Very nice

[@surajbhanusingh2673]

Always waiting for your rare content

[@carrielynn1502]

it is neat that he started the first kindergarten in Germany and made toys for the children

[@grandlotus1]

God Bless Saint Froebel! Play!

[@evans_KE]

love froebel

[@Zhonguoria]

Extension of Fröbel's idea is the Wald Kindergarten or Forest children's garden.

[@pricelesscovent5867]

I attended a pre school before starting primary school but I know how crucial it is for a child to attend a kindergarten or a pre school

[@x.s5162]

Hard to find a school like this now and when you do it cost 20000 a year

[@franceblack8521]

It was hard for me to adapt when I was in grade 1 because I did not attend Kindergarten and also not allowed to play.

[@Abdooz88]

As a child was making houses and cars from our garden clay, than I was going to be architect, but now I am a physician 😅.

[@pinaky_AnVikSiki]

Natural way to educate early childhood.. but today's system school bag heavier & contains small area with so many things that child sometimes confused & fatigue.. natural with nature best buddy for curious childhood..

[@ReneeJoan]

This is exactly what Mr. Rogers used to say.

[@user-th4sd3ln5w]

What's good idea of teaching. I am from india🎉

[@CovertExpertiseArtiMarziali]

I did go to Kindergarden and sadly i was bullied all the time.

[@HoangHieu-kv2sp]

Amazing content. I learned a lot!

[@kingjia90]

I don't recall anything done at the Kindergarten :/

[@zulinhl]

I was that kid that cry all the time XD, I just remember an exercise on the notebook that involved a frog jumping in a line and my classmates playing with bugs, thats all. The place for the recess had a lot of bugs.≡(▔﹏▔)≡ I remember that I didnt knew what to do there, the trees had bugs crawling, and the planters had lots of pill bugs that apparently kids loved to poke

[@user-pu7nf3ef9x]

Keep it up sprouts... Love your videos.

[@sprouts]

Thank you 1024!

[@sidratulmuntaha4050]

Thanks a lot for sharing

[@Mstwotimesme]

Thank you, so well represented

[@sprouts]

Thanks

[@danielcastillog1222]

Great story! Nice Job guys! Saludos desde Bogota Colombia

[@sprouts]

Thanks

[@tamizhkadhir7613]

Which software is this?

[@VishalKashyap-kt6zo]

❣️❣️❣️

[@dennismurphy9957]

Froebel’s theory of learning by playing has been shown in studies over and over again to be better than the 'academic' now in favour in preschool. Overanxious parents don't read them. Their attitude being let's get these kids into suits and debt ASAP.

[@shuiwu3439]

So Snape was actually a fan of teaching

[@jayantmandal712]

💞from India🇮🇳

[@simone161171]

Love from 🇧🇷

[@lizethgarcia-aguirre6081]

What do you guys think about him?

[@thakurranjeetsinghraghav6635]

From which world those unlinking people who unlike video like that

[@demetripetrenko2783]

Its a beautiful origins story, sadly its practice's are being replaced by liberal views, there is less playtime and more online and planting ideals in childrens head that the children cant even grasp yet. When I was in kindergarten i can remember we mostly Sang, had story time, arts and crafts, learned abc, how to count, but there was also alot of playtime tho... all we had was tricycles, balls, and sandbox. Haha we had alot of Psycological learning by talking to a puppet lion and learning about emotions looking a pictures of facial expressions and were always asked what do we think they feel i suppose this was early development of participation and voicing out opinions. Because alot of kids saw things diffrently so there'd be small debates such as "i think they are sad they upside down smile" "no i think they are mad because they look mad" then the teacher facilitates and would explain to us after. We were always encouraged to read taking home small paper stories with morals in them then coming back to discuss the story in a group. Now idk what they are teaching or doing and todays society keeps wanting to change i assume some Kindergartens do their own things as to what Froebel envisioned

[@aubrey6073]

I help out in the kindergarten class in our school sometimes and they still do pretty much the same thing as you said

[@demetripetrenko2783]

@@aubrey6073 yea but there has been news stories of some kindergartens that are full left and liberal political thinking around the world that do teach kinder gartners about religion, sex, homosexualism, same sex marriage, gender identities when all that should be reserved for when they are a mature age like 17 18 when they are able to make more rational independent decisions. not kindergarten when they should be learning the things that I've mentioned. But totally not all Kindergartens are the same, but its just sad that little by little Froebel's vision is dying and are being seen as what the Imperial German empire saw it as and replaced by a even worse practice

[@julioriveragomez6995]

@@demetripetrenko2783 that’s just bad. They won’t be able to comprehend such topics.

[@demetripetrenko2783]

@@julioriveragomez6995 go tell that to politcal correct schools, they'll say your sexist or racist and they'll bring in transgenders, cross dressers, lesbians and gays to talk to kids about themselves and read them homosexual books for kids XD

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

Conservatives and liberals both think this is the other's fault ignoring the fact the people in charge are neither.

[@iNaeron]

wait why does this have so few views?

[@sprouts]

🤔

[@gladyssanagustin9222]

😍

[@caseofthis3014]

I had probably racist educators i think. I was drawing houses all day since we needed to move so many times to different places such as women's shelters on and on and finally got to a place where we remained longer I noticed so i drew houses all day. Then this educator told me "ughh... Wait why again man" and i said ok I'll draw a lion in a cage then ! And she said "no it's too difficult" but ye know what i friggin did. I basically told her fuck off. Anyway. Later on i was more of a singer, drawer and started reading myself but got restricted from my mother. Also in primary school my teacher didn't like me too... I missed math basics and lost confidence in math up until today :( i was told to not attend acting classes but instead getting my grade (in Germany 11-13 grade is like highschool) as the first person in my family to do so since I've been told I'd be smart enough. I was yelled at all day and had no room for myself so i left with 16. I'm still singing, writing songs, did not get my promised violin classes and also didn't get my grade yet but I'll attend once again next yr and I'm so frightened for math and still not knowing where this will even lead me. But I need to get this outta my way forever. not getting money from my work as artist yet but i started with blender... it's so confusing for someone who has been told to be good at everything but never having gotten any real support but instead having been used from people so they can brag with you for your good looks, skills and so forth but that's it. So now I can hardly focus and determine what I even need and like and having serious trouble choosing between what I wanna do and sometimes I even end up doing nothing. Besides the issues it was somehow still easier as a kid to pick one thing to do, to aim for one single thing I feel ... now I'm overwhelmed with every solution that I'm having and every skill that I developed ... I'm good at drilling and I'm an autodidact... But i lost confidence in knowing what I really need and what I should go for since I hope there will be something that I get credit for without frying my brain, walking for 3 in a hospital as a nurse or talking to annoyed costumers or locking myself in a room and not wanting to attent any work with people no more but I'm so bad at maths and actually also with common people jobs i was just surpressing it ... I'm an artist actually :(. Being encouraged in what you like is key you must not be a Multitalent (to be an actress or actor lol that's what I thought is required so..) nobody needs that nobody likes that who cares even what a dozen skills ye have at the end of the day it's still only 24hrs sorry. Just ... I wish I would have just aimed for one thing forever ...

[@mihabrilj152]

Can you conpencate for missed play? How to compencate for missed life?

[@Mai-po1me]

POV: You are an Early Childhood Education Major

[@rebbecanoir]

Interesting

[@MsZeldasaga]

I loved kindergarten❤

[@yvetteihemesinwa2981]

Poor froebel. He never got to see his legacy be what it is today.

[@valleygirltotallyforsure]

Singing, nope. Dancing, definitely not! Gardening, ha ha! Self Directed play, nada... The original concepts are not at all upheld in a modern kindergarten. Public school does not treat children with respect or give them space to figure out who they are and what they are interested in. Having to ask permission to use the restroom or even to speak felt so shocking coming from a progressive, democratic household that valued each person equally. I remember coming home from the first day of kindergarten crying because they had used loud whistles to call us in from recess. "Mom, they WHISTLED at us! Like dogs!!"

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@nigelpascua287]

People crowds

[@geraldjohnson8871]

Froebel would really be disappointed in to days kindergarten. All they talk about Now to children is How to look like something they can Not Be "trans"formed into (Lbgtq) is what teachers have learned from Their professor's. Shalowm.

[@stellalpina]

When I was in kindergarten the nuns almost never let us have free play. It was all coloring sheets with scenes from the Bible, praying and educational games. I hated it. =.=

[@sprouts]

That’s sad, children need play.

[@stellalpina]

Back in the day was considered the best kindergarten in town, I guess learning theories just changed over the years. My younger brother actually went to one of those places where children were allowed to play freely, which at the time became more popular. 🤷‍♀️

[@hannajean8204]

ahh ECE centers, the place where children will experience abuse and neglect.

[@brendamorales5179]

I think there is a problem right now with Kindergarten schools because they are forgetting to let children play. They are obsessed to teach reading, maths, etc. which is not the way the children learn. So sad.

[@sprouts]

Yes!!!!

[@adnanbosnian5051]

Any LGBTQ books for children? Its love.

[@NubiaB]

Meanwhile these children can't read or write

[@barbaravancz]

You cannot learn from play.