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It's amazing how American educators are deluded about "learning through play", or what's developmentally inappropriate for young children. Nothing could be further than the truth. I'm a research scientist. I've read the studies. Most studies in the education field are deeply flawed, because unlike the hard sciences, it's very challenging to construct objective studies about something so qualitatively and quantitatively difficult to measure as "developmental learning". This is something all soft sciences struggle with. It's not as easy as counting the rate of infection for the new coronavirus.

Children are going to learn through play no matter what. Every young of every species is hard-wired to do just that. It's not something you can stop or hinder in any way unless you lock a child in a closet or deprive him of basic necessities like food and shelter.

If you add something more structured for a few hours every week, where they need to sit, listen, follow directions, work on fine motor skills like writing, and logical reasoning like math, IT WON'T HURT THEM. It just adds to the learning they're already doing.

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