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Companies capitalize on parents’ anxiety that toddlers need to learn the alphabet and numbers before they enter preschool. Education professor Diane Levin thinks parents are sold a bill of goods. “They think that a child who knows his alphabet at age three is smart, and that’s another belief that these companies exploit,” she said. “These toys can actually hurt children’s development of the very skills they purport to teach.”

Quote ID: 02715

Author

Pamela Paul

Source

Parenting, Inc.

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