Early Childhood Education-"Benefits of reading to your children in Childcare"

Research has proven again and again that reading for twenty minutes to a child is very important for there develpoment. Children may not be looking at you directly, but there brains are like sponges; they soak everything in. Weather your a childcare/ daycare provider, nanny or parent; reading to children teaches them about words and opens there depth of vocabulary and knowledge. They are able to use their imagination and expand in there little mind.

"While a country receives a good return on investment in education at all levels from nursery school and kindergarten through college, the research reveals that the returns are highest from the early years of schooling when children are first learning to read. . . . The early years set the stage for later learning. Without the ability to read, excellence in high school and beyond is unattainable."
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Early Childhood Education-"Benefits of Learning two languages in Childcare"

Learning more than one language can be stressful for us as caregivers, but when it comes to children and there development; it can be fun. Children are like sponges, they listen and repeat everything.

"While the remarkable performance of children acquiring one language is impressive, many children acquire more than one language simultaneously," said study author Agnes Melinda Kovacs, a research fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies, in Trieste, Italy. "As bilingual children presumably have to learn roughly twice as much as their monolingual peers [because they learn two languages instead of one], one would expect their language acquisition to be somewhat delayed. However, bilinguals pass the language development milestones at the same ages as their monolingual peers."

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