-experience of over coming setbacks and obstacles -is included to suggest that occasional, real experiences of solving a problem, re-making something that was not successful the first time, and other experiences of overcoming difficulties can strengthen a child's confidence and become a lifelong disposition.

Feelings of belonging and feeling welcomed■ Feelings of being taken seriously and respected■ Feeling what it is like to understand some thingsbetter (or more deeply)■ Experience of applying their developing skills inpurposeful and meaningful ways■ Being intellectually engaged and challenged■ Experience of overcoming setbacks and obstacles■ Experience of offering suggestions to peers andhelping them understand something better■ Experience of taking initiative, appropriate respon-sibilities, making some choices, and so forth.

But, the increasing efforts to adopt standards for the wide variety of early childhood provisions we have raises some troubling questions about their appropriateness, and perhaps also their potentially damaging effects

the funding available forschools was too low to hire themas teachers

The construction of this new culture in preschools was brought about by Malaguzzi in several ways. The first was by means of research, through reading and discussing with teachers writings by John Dewey, Lev S. Vygotsky, Erik Erikson, and other philosophers of education, whose works had only recently been translated into Italian.

They listen to life in all its shapes and colors.

Listening a time. When you realty listen, you getinto the time of dialogue and interior reflection, an interior time that is made up of the present butalso past and future time and is, therefore, outsidechronological time. It is a time full of silences

Children know this; they have the desire and the ability to search for the meaning of life and their own sense of self as soon as they are born.

In the search for meaning, we must a k: "why?" "how?" and "what?" These are the key questions that children constantly ask, both in and out of chool.

A teacher who is both sweet and stern,

The literal meaning of "infant" is unable to speak, but children's "voices" can be heard from birth, provided adults take the time and effort to listen (Pugh & Selleck, 1996, p. 123).

Children have a right to hang upside-down when it's safe 9 The sheer magnitude of the Boulder Journey School Chart

Children have a right to talk, as long as they do not interrupt someone else who is talking first, but children have a right to wait for their turn to talk