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"Two Spirit" - Injunuity
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Learning Mnemonics: Can You Really Hack Your Memory?
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Can You Start a Fire with a Sandwich Bag?
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Bizarre Discoveries in Antarctica
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oritteropo (Member Profile)
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What you never knew about the Last Supper painting
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This is already shown as a fake.
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Simon's Cat Logic - Why Do Cats Love Boxes?!
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Simon's Cat Logic - Why Do Cats Love Boxes?!
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Talking Tapes
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All Your Burning Questions About Weed, Answered
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Film | How Film Works and Its Place in Modern Filmmaking
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Can You Solve the Bridge Riddle?
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BBC Earth - Plankton. A Thank You Would Be Nice
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The Danish School Where Children Play With Knives
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People who disagree with science generally don't come out so well in the end--see anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, etc. I'd change my mind about these kindergartens if there were solid science behind them.
And if you look into it, you'll see there is very little good science to support this style of kindergarten (i.e. the sample sizes are small, no case studies or longitudinal studies, studies rely heavily on self-reporting of either parents and children, etc.) whereas there is a lot of well done research that shows the lifelong benefits of "traditional" pre-schooling (i.e. longitudinal studies that show demonstrable effects even after controlling for external factors).
I would love to see a well thought out longitudinal study that compares how the outdoor kindergarteners fair against those from traditional classrooms but unfortunately the only research I could find compared the outdoor kids to kids who had never been to kindergarten at all.
And of course comparing kids who went to any sort of kindergarten to kids who haven't is going to favor the kindergarten kids if you're looking at things like social skills, ability to take direction from adults, etc. (which is exactly what the studies done on the outdoor kindergartens do).
So it's not about disagreeing with you so much as it is not finding any evidence that this style of pre-school is better than going to a traditional preschool that includes a healthy amount of outdoor playtime (at least 1 to 2 hours a day if not more).