St. Michael's Episcopal Day School551

The school's director, Kathy Lapsys, is fantastic. She has a lot of experience in early childhood education and she understands kids. For example, she talks about the question of sharing and cautions, "We don't want to confuse developmental issues with moral ones." Her approach is that preschoolers were inherently made to not want to share - it's part of the healthy development of the child's self. Instead of making a child "bad" for not wanting to share, she encourages children to learn the fine art of negotiation. They learn how to work with one another to solve the problem (two kids, one toy) and have a positive interaction!