Too Much Too Soon‪?‬

How to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children's lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, `adultification', and the government's `nappy curriculum' which `schoolifies' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the `right learning at the right time' in children's growth - learning when they are developmentally ready.