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Maren Schmidt
Kids Talk is a column dealing with childhood development issues written by Maren Stark Schmidt. Mrs. Schmidt founded a Montessori school and holds a Masters of Education from Loyola College in Maryland. She has over 20 years experience working with young children and holds teaching credentials from the Association Montessori Internationale.
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You Can't Say You Can't Play
Exclusion begins early in life, and it can be observed even in pre-school settings. In days a class divides up into three main groups--leaders who say who gets to play in their games, the children excluded from the games and the children in the middle who live in fear of being rejected.
For the kindergartner who finds social skills a challenge, the exclusion of the playground becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: a child isn't included in a game because he plays too rough, wears different clothes or has a speech impediment. The list of deficiencies is long. Once the ''in'' group rejects this child, the exclusion isolates the outcast child from the other children in all three groups. READ MORE HERE
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