Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Truth About Early Learning | The Truth About Neurodivergent Kids

10 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video where Speaker A and Dr. Roseanne argue that pushing academic skills too early reduces learning. They endorse play-based education through about age 7, cite cross-country correlations with child well-being, and recount an anecdote about a four-year-old’s unexpected writing prompting parental and teacher concern.

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Just so everybody knows pushing kids to do things earlier does not actually create more learning. And in fact it does the opposite. We know this through research with where people are happy, different countries where people are happy, their kids are. Those countries are doing play based education till 7. They're not like sit down and write, you know. I remember this teacher coming up to me. I was a consultant at Shishi Poo Poo School and, and she came running.
Out and said, look at this kid's writing.
And I was like, you're in.
You're a preschool.
Teacher, right? I wanted to make sure. And she said, yeah, and it's the forest program. And I'm like, four year olds aren't supposed to write. She wasn't too happy. She was like, well, this parent's not going to like that.
And I was like, tell the parent to talk to me. I'm Dr. Roseanne.
We'll figure it out.