Uplifting Stories

If I possess the means and knowledge to conduct research studies about any topic in the early childhood field it would be helping children growing up in poverty. Knowing the effects of children growing up in poverty I would collect data from sources that could help children as well as the families who are a part of the situation. This positive contribution would really affect the well being of families as well as the children because it helps with their development. Children growing up in poverty has a disadvantage verses the children who comes from a wealthy family. I would research ways to decrease the disadvantage were all children has the same chances of becoming successful in life. I personally know of children and I also work with children of low income parents. In my opinion, children who are in wealthy families parents send their children to the best childcare centers were as low income families does not base their children childcare on the quality, education of the teachers, and importance of their development. It is important for my research to allow children living in poverty to be considerate of the importance of the early years of life and development.

Personal Reserach Journey

I have chosen the research topic of finding the importance of play and its development of children. I chose this topic because children are more interested with electronics in today's society and parents are allowing their children to sit with the electronics to keep the children quiet. Parents are not taking their children to the park and allowing children to play outside often. The importance for children to interact with other children helps children in their developmental areas and it is important for parents as well as teachers to understand the importance of play. 

International Early Childhood

Three consequences of learning about international early childhood field was awareness, change, and preparation. Which learning about international early childhood field it made me aware of the things we were doing in America, the things I may or may not need to change and the preparation of changing or not changing certain things. Also how America can help the developing countries with the help of each other helping those in need.

1 Goal: Helping the Children to become leaders and changing for the future

Podcast Blog

I found in a podcast, Dr. Dan Siegel talks about how the way we are brought up influences the way we bring up our kids the power of the past on our parenting. He also describes how parents can use reflection and self-awareness to make good parenting decisions today.  Research show that parents need to be aware of the facts of the past so they do not continue to past on the things that should not be done. Dr. Dan Siegel was involved with a research where the way parent communicate with their children influence the development of their children. 20 percent of children fail to avoid to help children develop their emotions and social development and it causes children to grow up not being able to express their feels. I thought Dr. Siegel made some interesting comments about how parenting affects children from their parents. Research is being done daily on the way to help children develop healthy.  

Equity and Excellence in Early Care and Education

Following some outside sources I found a article that talks about expanding access to early head start and how important it is for babies to begin development skill from birth. All babies need good health, strong families, and positive early learning experiences to foster their healthy intellectual, social, and emotional development.1 Unfortunately, far too few young children receive the supports they need to build a strong foundation for future growth. Infants and toddlers living in households under great economic stress are more likely to face challenges that negatively impact their development. Research shows that young children growing up in poverty experience poorer health, higher incidence of developmental delays and learning disabilities, hunger, and more reported cases of abuse and neglect compared to their peers.

I found that taking cue from NBC’s recent EducationNation Summit, it occurred that NTI is where the Baby Education Nation gathers each year. In the large K-12 space of the Summit, the idea that school readiness starts at birth doesn’t find much room. A segment and case study of Educare on the EducationNation website did highlight how high quality services support early development. But despite the fact that important brain development takes place during the first three years and many vulnerable babies fall behind during that period, babies still don’t pull much weight in the big kid education world.  At NTI, babies are front and center in discussions about development and learning, and giving all children the best possible start in life is a subject that excites much passion.

The information I found from the website Zero to Three gave me understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education. From the two article you can read how negativity can effect children and how it can delay a child in educational growth verses a child that is not exposed to economic stress factors. Other insights that I found was how the EducationNation Summit was so effective and informing everyone who works with children as well as families about how important development is at the age of birth. I influence a child way before the public school years.

The information I found from the website Zero to Three gave me understanding of equity and excellence in early care and education. From the two article you can read how negativity can effect children and how it can delay a child in educational growth verses a child that is not exposed to economic stress factors. Other insights that I found was how the EducationNation Summit was so effective and informing everyone who works with children as well as families about how important development is at the age of birth. I influence a child way before the public school years.