Educating Toddlers in the Home

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This paper discusses the critical learning period that children experience between birth until they enter kindergarten, and describes the work carried out by 'Kidsource', a national educational and healthcare organization. The paper gives some suggestions that Kidscouce make to help parents encourage their children to learn.

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"With this in mind, Kidsource, a national educational and healthcare organization, recommends that parents follow a systematic program to accomplish the program outlined above. Some of the suggestions regarding reading are that the parent read stories to the toddler, and encourage the child to create a play about a story and act it out with a friend, to draw a comic strip and share it, to go to the library and check out a book and to have a family reading night. In preparation for math, a parent can play "store" with the child and a friend to add, subtract, divide, multiply and make change with money. Listening to classical music with a toddler actually creates an ability to support mathematics later on. Making a graph of something, such as the popular activities of friends, finding patterns in nature or in buildings, and playing games having to do with numbers also brings a small child knowledge and familiarity with mathematical concepts (Kidsource 1)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Early Years Foundation Stage, The. (2007). Effective Practice: The Learning Environment. New York: Crown Publishing. Retrieved September 9, 2007 from http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/eyfs/resources/downloads/3_3_ep.pdf.
• Kidsource, (2000). Seven Stages of Growth: based on the President's 'Call to Action.' Kidsosurce Online. Retrieved September 9, 2007 from http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/preschoolers.education.html.
• National Library of Education, (Jun 2007). Engaging Parents in Education: Lessons From Five Parental Information And Resource Centers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved September 9, 2007 from http://www.ed.gov/admins/comm/parents/parentinvolve/engagingparents.pdf.

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