Subscribe to Receive the Daily Report

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017

Sweden’s gender-neutral preschools produce kids who are more likely to succeed

Author:     Lila MacLellan
Source:     Quartz
Publication Date:     June 18, 2017
 Link: Sweden’s gender-neutral preschools produce kids who are more likely to succeed
Stephan:   This is good news and, as a kind of knock off of Waldorf education, further confirmation that we know how to rear healthy mentally sound, curious and loving children, who become successful decent adults. Here is the evidence, yet again.

Swedish Nursery school. Note please that you see no plastic, nor any electronic devices.

Inside a handful of public kindergartens in Sweden, toys are never divided into traditional gender camps. Dolls and baby strollers mingle freely with cars and wooden blocks. In posters, dump trucks haul around beaded jewelry, a bionic robot wears a tutu, and it’s not a female or male Barbie who does the dishes—that’s left to a skeleton.

These are Sweden’s gender-neutral kindergartens, administered by Lotta Rajalin, who shared photos of the toyscapes and posters described above in a recent Tedx Talk. She also explained that at her schools, children can dabble in all kinds of activities, and are encouraged to explore their full range of emotions. Girls are not expected to suppress anger, and boys are not pressured to swallow their tears. All students are welcome to be as messy or tidy, rowdy, or passive as suits them.

Inside a handful of public kindergartens in Sweden, toys are never divided into traditional gender camps. Dolls […]

Read the Full Article