Too Much, Too Soon? Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood by Richard House

Too Much, Too Soon? tackles the burning question of how to  reverse the erosion of childhood by nurturing young children’s wellbeing  and learning capacity. Children’s lives have been speeded up by  commercialization, adultification, and government programs such as No  Child Left Behind and the “nappy curriculum”— a controversial program in  the Britain that requires children to hit a series of sixty-nine  targets by age five—aspects of which “schoolify” early learners and push  quasi-formal learning too soon. 
Twenty-two hard-hitting chapters by  leading educators, researchers, policy-makers, and parents advocate for  alternative ways for slowing childhood, better policy-making, and, most  important, the right learning at the right time in children’s growth,  when they are developmentally ready. ISBN:       9781907359026