I have recently had a few interactions that have left me feeling the need to advocate, once again, for early childhood education. I am having trouble trying to explain that we are not just a daycare, we are a school: we provide education to children, we nurture relationships, and we teach children the necessary skills to be successful in life.
You might only see us sitting in a group singing silly songs such as "Down By the Bay" but we know that by singing that song with toddlers we are teaching them the necessary skills of rhyming that will then lead to stronger reading skills once they enter kindergarten.
You might come to pick up your child from the playground and you see a child crying in the sandbox - you may think that we aren't doing our jobs or that those children aren't being well cared for, however, what you didn't see is that child asking to use the dump truck and another child telling them "No, I'm not finished yet." The crying child ha…
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