I can’t begin to say how angry this makes me feel.  Childcare workers will, like teachers, soon become so busy filling in forms to check up on their babies’ learning that they won’t have time to play with them.  Where’s the fun in childhood nowadays?  It seems that the single most important of childhood now is to memorise a whole heap of things that someone has decided you ought to know.  Once you’ve done that, then you can get on with enjoying yourself.  Trouble is, there’s so much to memorise you don’t have time for playing.  And, as I showed in my last post, if you don’t make sure you do the memorising before you do the playing, you get punished and are allowed to do even less playing :-(.  I am so determined that my children don’t get into this school system where evidence of their work (not their learning) is more important than they are.  And now they’ve decided to extend this nonsense into babyhood.  It’s all so wrong.