Did the title get your attention?
Sounds cool, doesn’t it?
I was presenting last fall at an Early Childhood Conference, and went to listen to the keynote speaker, Lisa Murphy.
Lisa Murphy IS the Ooey Gooey Lady.
If you’ve never heard of her and you have little ones, work with little ones, or plan to work with little ones in the future, then you need to go here.
You know this No Child Left Behind stuff?
Yeah.
Excuse me while I bend over to find the eyeballs that have rolled so hard they fell out of my head.
I’ve worked in school districts.
I’ve now got a son in the local public school system. (albeit a Montessori public school)
If you compare school now to school back when I was in school.
It sucks.
The testing. The drills. The homework. Every.Single.Minute.Planned.Out.
Even preschools are teaching academics.
Lisa Murphy is about playing.
That’s the way young children learn.
Remember mud pies?
Dress up?
Watching clouds go by?
Slippery Slides?
Merry-go-rounds?
Recess?
That’s what I’m talking about.
And that’s what Lisa Murphy, the Ooey Gooey Lady, is talkin’ ’bout too.
Here’s the book:
Life would be so much better if the children had more play time.
