“An investment in knowledge,” says Benjamin Franklin, “pays the best interest.” Investing in your kids’ development early in their lives will definitely pay the best interest. Franklin was a proponent of education and believed in the power of knowledge. He did not complete formal education. He had to stop for financial reasons, but he taught himself by reading books, learned foreign languages, got into apprenticeships and taught others to spread knowledge. That is how important education is for him, and look where his passion brought him. He founded Philadelphia Academy, now the University of Philadelphia, and became one of the United States’ founding fathers.

Curriculum at Home

Hakkında duydun mu Perry Preschool Project? It is a study conducted from 1962 to 1967 where high-quality education was provided to 128 African-American children aged three to four years old, living in poverty with a high risk of failing school. It was designed to involve the mother in the education process by implementing the curriculum at home. Sixty-four children underwent high-quality education, and sixty-four did not. The children were monitored and followed up.

Key results showed that at age 5, sixty-seven percent of the control group (who were provided with high-quality education) showed IQ 90+ against 28% of non-program kids, seventy-seven of the control group graduated high school against the sixty percent of the non-program group. There were less teenage pregnancies and crimes on control versus non-program kids. And lastly, at age 40, the control group held higher-income jobs at sixty percent against 40 percent of the non-program group.

Early Learning at Home and its Advantage

Have you now realized the great opportunity you provide your kids by giving them early learning at home? Children can start early learning as young as 18 months to the age of 4. These are formative and sensitive years when children learn fast. A child’s brain growth reaches 80% of adult size by age 3, 90% by age four, and full-grown to adult size by age 5. You have to keep pace with that growth spurt or lose the chance.

Spending time with your child in his formative years will allow you to observe his development up-close and see any behavior, motor, sight, hearing or communication barriers or hurdles. Brain research indicates that the age from birth to three are the most important years in his development.

Building the Foundation for Your Kids

At this age, what the children learn and are exposed to will serve as the groundwork for his success later in his adult life. Formal education teaches much about left brain development, while early learning curriculum provides whole-brain training, memory techniques, motor skills activities, literacy, numeracy while making learning fun, engaging, and entertaining for your child.

You are the best person to give quality education with the best care to your child because you have a very personal interest in him. While the early learning at home curriculum provides the training tools, you will be in the best position to execute the modules with patience, care, and compassion. You do not have to wait for your kids to enter formal class education. You prepare them for formal class education, right in the comforts and safety of your own home. You never know; your child might just have to be moved up and skip the first level because of his early education. You go, Mom!

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