80% local urban children unprepared for kindergarten
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - Experts say it's never to early too start educating your child. A nationally-recognized doctor visited Grand Rapids today to talk about raising baby scholars.
Dr. Susan Landry, is the director of the Children's Learning Institute at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. She discussed the best practices for preparing babies, toddlers and preschoolers for class.
Each year, 1,400 babies are born in Grand Rapids urban neighborhoods. Eight out of ten of them come to kindergarten unprepared. Dr. Landry says teaching them early through experiences, makes the difference.
"Three and four year olds are actually like little sponges and they can learn amazing things, but they have to have support, and they have to be taught. If that doesn't happen, they will truly enter kindergarten in our school districts and automatically be behind before they've even had a chance to get started."
Thursday's session was in partnership with Believe 2 Become, a partnership aimed at helping Grand Rapids children succeed.
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She discussed the best practices for preparing babies, toddlers and preschoolers for class. Each year, 1400 babies are born in Grand Rapids urban neighborhoods. Eight out of ten of them come to kindergarten unprepared. Dr. Landry says teaching them
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In the last few days my Twitter stream and Facebook feed have been blowing up with Blogher news and announcements. I can’t believe it’s so close! I’m really looking forward to this year in San Diego, especially now that I got my newbie experience out of the way.
Heading into Blogher 2010, I was a giant ball of nerves and had NO IDEA what to expect. When I got back, I wrote this post partly with the intention to share it with this year’s Blogher first-timers, and partly to remind myself. I figured today would be as good a day as any to re-post.
If you’re not a blogger or don’t ever intend on going to Blogher (a blogging conference aimed at women), then this post will likely bore the bejeebus out of you. It’s okay. You can click away. My feelings won’t be hurt. I’ll be back to blogging about kids and life and the mess that is my house tomorrow.
1. Build in time to do sight seeing in addition to the days you’re spending at the conference .
I’ve been to NYC several times and didn’t feel pressured to see anything beyond the hotel, which was good because I wouldn’t have had any time (or energy) for sightseeing the Thursday evening through Sunday morning I was there. However, I would very much like to see San Diego, so I’m thinking we’re going to have to build in at least one extra day into the trip next year (and I’m hoping to drag my husband along with me to play baby wrangler to our then 8ish month old baby girl who will most likely still be breastfeeding)*. I’m sort of with Maria Melee on this . “I kind of wish these conferences were in really boring places so I’d stay in the hotel.”
*Change of plans! I’m now attending the pathfinder day on Thursday, so I’ll be flying in on Wednesday. And since I’m leaving the kids with Scott back in Texas (because the baby takes a bottle, yay!), I don’t really have the time to build in extra days for sightseeing. I’ll already be gone from them for 5 days. I’ll just have to get to know SD another time.
2. Remain comfortable while striving to not look like a slouch.
I packed 6 pairs of shoes, about 3 too many. I wound up wearing a very comfy, practical, yet stylish pair of patent leather flats during the day because my feet just couldn’t take even the tiniest of kitten heels I planned to wear. I saved the tortuous heels for evening events. I was happy with my wardrobe choices, which included stylish, but comfy (maternity) jeans and dressy tops for day and forgiving, breathable and comfortable dresses for night (that I spiced up with lots of fun accessories). Originally, I hated that so much of my wardrobe was black, but it was super easy to dress up or dress down, and I felt great in all of it. And despite all the hype and fashion buzz leading up to the event, it actually wasn’t an intimidating fashion show. Everyone seemed very down to earth and looked lovely.
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