Missed preschool opportunity

Preschool is a wonderful time for diverse learning opportunities.  But is the focus on academics overpowering some important life skills?   Executive function skills, including paying attention, setting goals, planning, and organizing, are a critical foundation for academic skills and can influence a child's classroom behaviour in the future.  Could the narrowed focus on learning things like letters and numbers mean missing this key opportunity to teach other important life skills?  

USA Today: We're missing a big preschool opportunity