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Our Emergency Fund. Sadly, these families often discover that the affordable childcare provider offers poor or mediocre support to help their child in the critical stages of early childhood development. In order to have a productive workforce and thriving economy tomorrow, we need to invest in our children today. There are viable policy solutions that could expand early childhood education and enrichment opportunities to all, rather than a select few at the top.
Second, it is important to expand access to high-quality, affordable early child-hood education. These programs better prepare children for school, putting children more than a year ahead in mathematics and other subjects.
Lastly, parents can only be better first teachers of their children if they have the time to be with their children. Policies such as workplace flexibility, paid family and medical leave, and paid sick days could help all working parents better manage work and family obligations and spend more time with their children.
The importance of investing in early childhood matters for our overall economic competitiveness. The United States should be making smart economic investments in early childhood to ensure that all children have an equitable start before their first day of school.
For the American Dream to shine well into the 21st century, it is no exaggeration to say that every American, young and old, needs our youngest ones to be the best and the brightest as adults no matter their family background and income level.
Anders Ericsson, they likely found something they genuinely wanted to master at a young age. The Florida State University psychology professor spent the last 30 years studying peak performers, publishing his findings in a book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. While they may have gotten in trouble at school or earned less than stellar grades, they found something they wanted to master and had the ability to dedicate their time and energy to it.
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Can they run amok through yards and across streets pretending to shoot other children? There was no moralizing on guns or killing — it was just good fun. The police were the good guys; that's all we knew," said Alex Parker, new first time dad and Tribune digital editor for business.
And remember the thrill of a birthday at school, the treats one can expect to bring? That too went the way of the dinosaur, according to digital editor and mother of two Tina Akouris. At my sons' school, students don't bring in treats for their birthdays unless it's nonedible, like pencils, stickers, etc.
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