Tag: kindergarten
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Meaningful Recreation During Summer
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By Elena Gatsenko Should you make your child study during summer holidays or should you give children absolute freedom? Let’s talk about it and start with our childhood stereotypes – spending summer holidays outdoors by the house or summer cottage, or in the country (“retro cliché). Mowgli-style recreation often happened…
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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…
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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…