The Child’s Curriculum: Working with the Natural Values of Young Children

All children are born with emotional talent. But if left untended, those talents can wane during the first five years of life. Children are sensitive and social beings from birth, exhibiting an innate enthusiasm for communication that must be satisfied for healthy development. If their feelings, agency, and motivations are met with affection, if they are respected and nurtured, then children will respond creatively and that inherent desire for companionship will flourish. The book focusses on children’s readiness for learning. It addresses the natural joy explicit in children’s early conversations and engagement with music and their development through play with both adults and other children.