Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/14/2007 2:52:00 PM Author: Subject: I agree that brain development is critic... I agree that brain development is critical in the early years. What I don't agree with is the notion that government nurseries or preschools should fill that educational role. Parents are a child's first teacher, and parents have a lasting impact on a child's outlook towards education. I see too many parents believing that school is where their child will learn skills, and they don't do anything at home. We need to change that outlook to parents accepting responsibility to providing their child a rich environment to develop the whole child. This is where parent education programs will far better reach the needs of developing the brain of a young child, far more than any preschool program. I work with inner-city poor, parents lacking education and resources. Once I show them the wonders they can find in their world that cost little to nothing, they are amazed and in return the parents gain confidence, along with their child becoming more enthusiastic towards learning. Something odd happens in the inner-city, boys especially tend to show alot of anger when they hit an older 4, and 5. they start to resist school, learning games are for losers. once I get the parents on track these boys too stay on track. Parents first. Not government schooling. Name: Email: Subject

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