Aug 2013 Globe and Mail article: All Day K in Ontario put in despite lack of facilities and school board objections
Category: Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural
Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School, a Slate article by Alison Gopnik (broken link)
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School, a Slate article by Alison Gopnik
Maclean's Magazine article: Why full-day kindergarten doesn't work. (broken link)
May 2013, Maclean's Magazine article: Why full-day kindergarten doesn't work. The article highlights the lack of concern for children's well-being in the education ministries and their total refusal to accept the findings of peer reviewed research. Note: the article incorrectly…
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UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish Colleague
Mar 17, 2013: UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish colleague, Jonas Himmelstrand, Long days at nursery or with childminders 'raising a generation of school tearaways'. Research says that bad behaviour is linked to hours spent without parents. Jonas…
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Aug 2012: Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help
Aug 30, 2012 (web): Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help. An article by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada with interviews of Dr Gordon Neufeld and Kids First President, Helen Ward download PDF copy here
July Costco Connections Debate on all-day Kindergarten with Helen Ward
July/August 2012: Costco Connections Debate on all-day Kindergarten with Helen Ward of Kids First: Send in your input and do the poll. Here is an uncut version of the Costco article with references/links (PDF)
Mar 2012: Queen’s University economists also find harm to children’s outcomes from Quebec daycare (broken link)
Mar 2012: Queen’s University economists also find harm to children’s outcomes from Quebec daycare (broken link) /Baker-Gruber-Milligan findings for Quebec continue
Dec 2011, Montreal Gazette article – Corruption and unfairness in Quebec’s daycare system (broken link)
Dec 2011, Montreal Gazette article – Corruption and unfairness in Quebec’s daycare system (broken link). NOTE: the article’s claim that daycare demand is higher than supply is very questionable. Parents in polls say they prefer parental care. Demand is artificially…
Violent Youth Crime and overall violent crime up dramatically according to Statistics Canada data
Violent Youth Crime and overall violent crime up dramatically according to Statistics Canada data (broken link)
Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing: August 21, 2011
August 21, 2011. The New York Times -article (web): "The Kids Are Not All Right" by UBC law professor, Joel Bakan, author of “The Corporation” and the new “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children”
Aug 20, 2011 interview with Helen Ward on riots on the Roy Green show on Corus radio.
Aug 20, 2011 interview with Helen Ward on riots on the Roy Green show (broken link) on Corus radio. Go to 8/20, segment “Another teen set to…”
Vancouver Sun Aug 15, 2011: Parents bear responsibility for the recreational rioter
Aug 15, 2011. Vancouver Sun - article (web): Parents bear responsibility for the recreational rioter (broken link)
Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behaviour in rhesus monkeys
August 15, 2011: Article in PNAS (scholarly journal) - "Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behaviour in rhesus monkeys"
Aug 6, 2011: David Cameron, UK PM responds to riots: “a lack of proper parenting“
August 6, 2011. David Cameron. The Christian Institute - video (web): David Cameron, UK PM responds to riots: “a lack of proper parenting“
July 2011 Maclean’s Magazine article with comments: “Is subsidized daycare bad for kids?
July 2011 Maclean’s Magazine article with comments (web): “Is subsidized daycare bad for kids? A surprising new study says Quebec’s $7-a-day daycare is leaving children worse off (broken link)“ A study referred to in Maclean’s: How Does Early Childhood Care…
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