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From Womb to Tomb, Starting at Pre-K

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It was a step in the right direction when WIC was enacted at a national level. Even before birth, babies are dependent on nutritious food for mothers. Although only a few of the most needy have a chance to use the products, we all can benefit from the advice. After delivery, a system of well baby visits are likely to begin. Measuring weight and providing inoculations are important. In the course of visiting a pediatrician, a mother may also explore learning disorders which might require additional consultation. Before children start school is a good time to ascertain whether they have neurological disorders which may hamper learning. Much is made these days of the Autism Spectrum Disorder. How one teaches a small child can be adjusted according to a condition which is lifelong for him or her.

Assuming that children are well, satisfactorily supported in a family, and have requisite health benefits, there is no reason why they aren't ready to enter school eager and ready to learn.

We are discussing the life long process of learning. No new experience requires more preparation than that first day of school.

Bonds between parents and children--and on occasion between caregivers and children--leave little folks able to adjust to all the curious events they will encounter before they are free to fly from the nest, if only temporarily.

In the ages and stages of life--similar to climbing ladders--each stage predicts the next. A better metaphor might be of a child's setting out on an escalator. Unafraid, but getting a gentle boost, children are anxious for Big Kid status. From sounding out words by the phonics method, they soon learn that words fit together and make a story. It's a whole 'nother world out there!

Easy as all this seems to adults, it requires a stupendous effort. Much dedication is also exacted from parents and teachers.

If anyone cares to expound on their personal philosophy of education--well, that's why this is written.

Please join me in discussing how children, regardless of ethnicity or financial status, can be helped by good pedagogy.

And keep in mind those born on September 11, 2001 will soon be taking reading tests to graduate from the Third Grade.

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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.

Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.

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