At the very least, we commend Unhurried Pathways as one possible, thoughtful contribution towards an urgently needed ‘new paradigm’ for early childhood. Half a century, to the year, after the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which the term ‘paradigm’ was first coined, for Early Childhood Action and its many supporters, such a new paradigm cannot come soon enough.