Book Endorsements
'The unprecedented influences of the 21st century are impacting on the young mind with unprecedented results. This timely book offers a wide-ranging collective wisdom on how to optimize the individual potential of the next generation.”
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE FRCP (Hon), author of ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century (Sceptre, 2008)
“The concept of Intergenerational Justice lies at the heart of sustainable development. And where else should that start than in each and every child’s early years? We are currently failing in that moral obligation to young people – and this powerful collection of essays reminds us of how important and how urgent it is to put that right.”
Jonathan Porritt, Founding Director, Forum for the Future
“Our early care sets the emotional thermostat for who we are by age six. These essays, taken together, present an overwhelming case for meeting the needs of children in the early years. Personally and nationally, we cannot afford to ignore their message.”
Oliver James, Psychologist and writer, author of They F*** You Up (Bloomsbury, 2007)
The government is focused on getting young children ready for school instead of on getting them ready for life. Early and rigid academic goals are often achieved at the expense of social and emotional growth. Learning is for life not for school.
Penelope Leach
Many health and education experts now link the ‘too much, too soon’ mind-set to increased stress in children and decreased levels of creativity, curiosity, problem-solving, and social capacity. It is high time for a paradigm shift, and this book can serve as a lever to bring that about.
Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood, former kindergarten teacher
Offers well-reasoned recommendations for policy, indispensable reading for all concerned with children in their early years.
Kevin J. Brehony, Froebel Professor of Early Childhood Studies, Roehampton University
A clarion call for evidence-based educational reform.
Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Some of the most outstanding and capable advocates of children’s well-being in the UK today.
Steve Biddulph, Preface
