An Ounce of Prevention: How to Know When Your Children Will Outg

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HarperCollins e-books; 1 edition November 16, Publication Date: November 16, Sold by: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. During the course of this book, Dr. Shapiro did give me a lot to think about in terms of my child's emotional health. There are some chapters that are better - the chapter on dealing with children's fears is not bad - and some that are worse. Infomation for younger children is scanty, and often didactic, or worse contradictory.

These may both be accurate statements, but if the author is going to assert both, than he needs to make some attempt to reconcile the two.

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Under what circumstances would one delay responding to a crying child? At a particular age?


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With a particular personality type? Last, but certainly not least, Dr. Shapiro pays lip-service in the introduction to balanced parenting, saying that neither permissive nor authoritarian parenting is good for children's emotional health Certainly true. However in the body of the book, all his diatribes are reserved for the permissive parents, and all his references to dictatorial parents are in the past, as if such things don't occur today.

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Certainly overly permissive parents exist, but the dictatorial parent is a long way from being a thing of the distant past. You might browse it at your local library if you're really interested. Don't bother buying it.

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Most of you are businesspeople. You know what makes a strong workforce—especially as our economy evolves.

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound

One of the best ways to address this problem is to help young children prepare for a long life of learning. More than one million teenagers drop out of high school every year. It starts long before that—on Day One—and it has ramifications that last forever. We know that the first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

First, we know how to fix this problem. We know—from scientific research and the experience of pioneering organizations like the Ounce—what it takes for children to grow up confident and secure. What they need most is a lot of affection from the people who take care of them.

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound

Without that sense of intimacy, infants get stressed. They have a hard time forming a sense of belonging. Scientists have actually shown that children with fewer intimate attachments have higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in their blood. But these days, few families have the luxury to decide that mom or dad will stay home from work.

I sensed the difference in an instant. This was a place where kids belong. It was obvious that the kids were learning—and having fun while they were at it. I want to tell you two other things that impressed me about Educare Chicago. First, the children at the center really were the children who needed help most urgently. Done right, the way Educare does it, early learning can be a key ingredient in the fight against poverty. We all know how hard it is these days to juggle being a full-time parent and earning a living full time. Parents want help with this balancing act, and Educare provides it by working closely with parents in their communities.

But knowing how to fix the problem is a far cry from actually fixing it. The next step is to make sure that all kids have access to high-quality early learning. Before that, we assume that development just happens naturally. We need to rethink the dimensions of public education in this country. We have to implement this new wisdom about what it means to teach our children well. But it can be done right. Several European countries offer compelling models. For example, the city of Reggio Emilia in Italy has been providing cutting-edge early childhood education for 50 years. France has had nearly universal early learning for a century.

In England, the system is newer, but national policy is making wonderful educational experiences more and more accessible to all young children. At least a dozen states have made early learning a policy priority. Illinois may well be the best example.

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Due largely to the work of the Ounce, this state has been a leader in childcare policy for 25 years. No state is doing enough to make sure children grow up ready to learn. My state of Washington is a perfect example. Finally, we are building momentum behind the idea of making sure that all children are ready for school on their first day.

It is up to all of us in this room to make sure we get on track and stay there. We need to demand that our leaders start paying attention to how they serve young children.