Lecture: The Importance of Being Little with Erika Christaki

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Hours:	7-8:30
Ages:	Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Lectures/Discussions

Erika shares her insights into young children -- rather than clutter their worlds with more and more stuff, sometimes the wisest course for us is to learn how to get out of their way.

Christakis’s message is energizing and reassuring: young children are inherently powerful, and they (and their parents) will flourish when we learn new ways of restoring the vital early learning environment to one that is best suited to the littlest learners.

“A playful childhood is worth more than the accumulation of every conceivable standard.'

Even if we rounded them up and assigned them an amassed value, that value x wouldn’t come close to the infinite value of play to a young child’s development.” —Erika Christakis

Erika Christakis is an early childhood educator at the Yale Child Study Center and has focused her career on the wellbeing of children and families.

She is an honors graduate of Harvard College and holds master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, and Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education.

She is a Massachusetts-certified teacher (preK through 2nd grade) as well as a licensed preschool director.

For two years, she wrote a TIME.com Ideas column, and her work has been featured in a number of other venues, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNN.com, Nightline, and the Financial Times.

A mother of three grown children, she lives with her husband in New Haven, Connecticut.

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$10.00

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Phone: 781-863-1062

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