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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, after Sesame Street, is the second longest running children's program on PBS. Based on child development and early education principles and deliberately slow-paced, the program allows children time to reflect on what they see and hear. Each Mister Rogers' Neighborhood explores a major theme of childhood, through the real world and a related make-believe puppet story. In these first five episodes of the program a joyful...
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This course taught by renowned psychology professor and child development expert explores some scientifically proved techniques for raising healthy, happy, and intelligent children, includes topics such as the link between sleep and cognitive development, ways to help your child with homework, and how to encourage pro-social behavior.
8) Body
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Improve fine motor skills while making a memory book imagination station, and learn how to share with your friends and family.
10) Transportation
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Each episode helps develop fine motor skills, gross motor skills, communication cognitive skills, and socialization.
12) Animals
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Each episode helps develop fine motor skills, gross motor skills, communication cognitive skills, and socialization.
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This film chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France, presided over by Georges Lopez, a devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11. The film sees the teacher as artist, and presents teaching as a form of love. Because along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children learn about what we think of as the basic values of civilization: reason, tolerance, learning, cooperation, and comradeship....
15) The UP series
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"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man." Starting in 1964 with Seven UP, The UP Series has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted, a researcher for Seven UP, has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their...
17) I was a rat
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"On a dark, rainy night, an elderly couple finds a shivering little boy on their doorstep who proclaims "I was a rat." They take the boy in, but because of his odd rat-like behavior, people in the town declare the boy a monster. To save him, the couple must discover the truth of who he is, before it's too late.
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In 'Dora had a Little Lamb': Little Lamb gets lost, but Dora and Boots know where to go. In 'Call me Mr. Riddles': Boots loves riddles so much that he wants to be called Mr. Riddles and he wants to go to Tall Mountain to solve the silliest riddle in the Riddle Contest. In 'Backpack': When Dora received Backpack from her parents she receives more than just a gift. In 'Big river': Boots loses a boot in the big river. He'll need Dora and Backpack to...
20) Digital nation
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"Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means...
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