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Low-income families should not lose child-care subsidies while on parental leave
Written by Burns, S., Jegatheeswaran, C., Perlman, M., Varmuza, P. & Saleem, S.,
Published in the National Post (July 4 th , 2022)
High-quality early childhood education and care services provide children with warm and nurturing interactions a...
Post · September 20, 2022
Building partnerships between parents and child care staff through informal communication.
Written by Brooke Fletcher and Michal Perlman
Published in Interaction, 23, 19. Ideas: Emotional Well-Being in Child Care
Research shows that there are many benefits to building strong, supportive connections between families and school settings...
Post · September 19, 2022
Monitoring quality in early childhood education programs: A bunch of W’s and one H
Written by Michal Perlman
The development of this short policy document was supported by the Atkinson Charitable Foundation, the Lawson Foundation and the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation.
Increasing numbers of young children are be...
Post · September 19, 2022
Just who’s looking after your kids?
Written by Michal Perlman
Published in The Toronto Star, November 12, 2011
Not long ago, Torontonians were horrified to hear about the child-care centre in Markham where three young toddlers took a self-directed field trip to a nearby Shoppers D...
Post · September 19, 2022
How to ‘bridge minds’ with a child to stimulate brain development
Written by Sokolovic, N., Jenkins, J. & Perlman, M.
Published in The Conversation Feb 14, 2018
A three-year-old boy struggles to thread beads on a string while his older sister watches. She could ignore him or take over the task to get it done ...
Post · September 19, 2022
Why do dog walkers need more permits than child-care providers?
Written by White, L., Davidson, A., & Perlman, M.
Published in National Post, March 1, 2018
It may be tomorrow, it may be next week, or perhaps next month but it will happen — another child will die in an unlicensed child-care setting.
Deaths i...
Post · September 19, 2022
The Authoritarian Personality: Preparing your Data
To enhance my statistical and programming know-how, I set out to find data sets that would interest and/or be relevant to psychological researchers and utilize new (to me) programming languages.
One great resource I found, Open Psychology Data, ...
Post · September 18, 2022
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