Einstein Never Used Flash Cards Quotes

“Children with loving parents who enjoy them, play with them, and offer guidance and suggestions as they explore their environment will be healthy, emotionally well-adjusted, and psychologically advanced.”
― Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

“Compare two mothers—Mary and Jamie—who are very similar in terms of education and income, each with 3-year-old at dinner. Child: I want bread. Mary: (Handing over bread) Here. Child: Mmmm. Mary: You want more? Child:Yes. Mary: (Handing over bread) Here. Child: I want bread. Jamie: The bread is good, isn’t it? Do you want one piece or two? Child: One, please. Jamie: (Handing over bread) Did you like the bread on your sandwich at school today? Child: Yeah, it was good. Jamie: The bread I used for your school lunch was called pumpernickel. Pumpernickel is a black bread. Did you ever have black bread before?”
― Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

“Language gets learned in the context of interaction—in the context of eating and playing and asking for the names of things, not passively looking at a computer monitor. And that’s”
― Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

“And if they are lucky enough to be exposed to multiple languages, they will master all of them, as long as the languages are presented in a natural context, such as when dad speaks Spanish and mom speaks English or the live-in nanny speaks French.”
― Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

“Some researchers have suggested that at around this time, typical 18- to 20-month-olds can learn as many as nine new words a day. Imagine that—63 new words a week!”
― Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

“(hat) than to one that they didn’t hear, such as “cup.” By”
― Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less