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Preschool Children In Greenwich: Tn our own country there are significant differences in child-rearing among the diverse social groups. A teacher observed differences between the personality patterns of preschool children in Greenwich Village, New York, and those of children in the Tennessee mountains (53, 1946). A review of three important studies -of child-rearing practices leads to the conclusion that middle-class mothers in the regions studied were generally more permissive and less punitive toward their young children than were working-class mothers. (84, p. 446, 1957) Each culture has its unique methods of child nurture, which are reflected in the personalities of both children and adults.
Swearing is another language response which may make its appearance in the preschool period. Young children use such words imitatively at first, probably without half understanding their meaning. If the words produce a startling, exciting effect on some adult, children tend to repeat the experiment. If the words are ignored a child may drop them of his own accord. One day a preschool child walked into his father's room and called joyfully, "Well, Godandamn." His father was somewhat amazed, but he merely said, "What does that mean?" "Jackie says it means, 'Well, isn't this grand!' " At his father's suggestion the small boy willingly substituted the latter expression for the objectionable one that had little meaning for him. Older boys can realize the deep religious significance of taking the name of God in vain.
In our two collections, Young Children Learning and Teaching Young Children, by authors who are or who have been tutors at Canterbury Christ Church College, we are exploring the ways in which we all need to open our minds and reflect on learning and teaching, and their relationships to each other, during the first two 'cycles' of children's education careers - the preschool and early primary phases, between birth and eight years.
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