The Power of Thinking Like a Preschooler [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 2/12/164:00 AM

What is it like to be a 4-year-old human? Trying to remember this experience with any accuracy is difficult. Memories are hazy flashes of sensory experience and emotion that fail to coalesce into something coherent: the red piped icing on a birthday cake, the sticky static of plastic wrap on mom’s dry cleaning, overwhelming waves of sadness from a Disney-movie soundtrack.

It’s no wonder that at an individual level, trying to talk and relate to a small child can feel like grappling with a foreign species. It’s also, perhaps, no wonder that a society of adults has trouble figuring out how best to design a preschool environment.

[For more of this story, written by Lauren Cassani Davis, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/edu...-preschooler/462285/]

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