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  • The Psychology of Growing Up Preparing Children for Kindergarten By Elena Gatsenko

    The Psychology of Growing Up Preparing Children for Kindergarten By Elena Gatsenko

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    Encouraging Creative Art Skills What have you drawn here? In these amazing times we are witnessing a change in attitudes to fine arts, and to the first attempts at drawing in school and kindergarten. It is no longer a leisure pursuit for the development of fine motor skills. Today paints…

  • The Psychology of Growing Up Preparing Children for Kindergarten By Elena Gatsenko

    The Psychology of Growing Up Preparing Children for Kindergarten By Elena Gatsenko

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    Christmas Fears Santa’s visit (or Father Frost, Noel) is not the main source of most children’s fears. Only the little ones get scared when, in the kindergarten or at home, they are greeted by a loud stranger in a bright outfit as he invades their personal space.The main source of…

  • The Psychology of Growing Up

    The Psychology of Growing Up

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    PREPARING CHILDREN FOR KINDERGARTEN Elena Gatsenko graduated from I.I. Mechnikov National University’s general psychology faculty in Odessa in 2004, specialising in clinical psychology and with a dissertation topic on “Impaired Concentration”. Elena has a special interest in fairytale and art therapy techniques. She is a head of the pacesetting poly-lingual…