Consistency of loving is one of the best examples of a simple thing that’s vitally important. Babies don’t need flashcards, but in the first three years they do need wonderful, consistent care from families who love them in order to help them thrive in kindergarten and beyond. That may sound too ordinary and very directly connected to success. Yes it is. Certain biological effects directly result from such elemental factors as who cares for a child, and how knowledge that person is, as well as what happens day-in and day-out that child’s life. Without a well laid ground work of security and attention, later classroom learning may be more difficult.
Focus on a child’s learning abilities used to begin at kindergarten, or later. Then during the 1960s, the values of early intervention program lead to a boom in preschool that began at age four. Yet low test scores continue to be a problem in public elementary schools. Why are so many kids not ready for school?School readiness does not mean having already developed the academic content of schooling. It does not mean being able to recite the alphabet, count to one hundred. Or know the four sounds that the letter “A” can make when you are three, four, or five years old. Parents often exert a lot of effort and worry over the acquisitions of such skill, but the reality that they will be taught by experienced teachers in due course and there is little advantage to being able to do them sooner. “School readiness” instead refers to coming to kindergarten with a ready brain – a healthy, active nurtured brain that is capable learning.
Baby Need Simple Things Consistently and Earlier
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