The Bumps In The Road For Early Childhood Education

The Bumps in the Road for Early Childhood Education Now a day preschool, kindergarten, and even church playschools are the normal for kids under the age of five. Whether you come from a family of working parents, parents who don’t work, or even families divided most children are in some sort of school or plays group before they start elementary school. Although, it seems so normal, not every child is granted the opportunity they deserve or that their parents wish for. Parents in America are battling the issue of their children not being able to get free education before their elementary days, and how it is affecting their futures. In this essay I will address the issues of early childhood education and the roll it is playing on American families.

It is not a child’s fault that he or she is behind due to lack of schooling or even a learning disability. The early years are the perfect time to mold their brains and to help them for what is coming. The parents of these children, whether being educated early on or not, are suffering. In an article by “Parenting Healthy Children” a parent states that, “parents are learning to parent their children better by learning positive parenting skills, which engender positive emotions that facilitate learning.“ If getting a child in an early childhood education program can not only help their learning abilities, but also help the family at home, why isn’t every child enrolled? Early Childhood education becomes a win-win for both child and student. Not only is this benefiting the present, but also it is helping out their future self and teacher. If a child is coming straight from a preschool into elementary, they already have the fundamentals needed to excel. The teacher is able to teach to the whole class as a unit and not single certain children out. The saying is “no child left behind”, but often there is a straggler or two. If each child were given the opportunity to have already had some schooling, the teacher would know the level of each student. The children and the teacher would

Parents and teachers are to encourage their children while making the transition into kindergarten no matter their lack or depth of their education. Parents have to worry about their child’s social and behavioral methods they often do not have time to worry about their learning and development process as well. Now, some parents do have the time and effort to teach their children, so they do not fall into this category but that isn’t many. Parents and teachers are speaking out about how to operate and communicate to one another. The problems do not just arise in the children, but when the child has a problem the parents must deal with it as well. If the parents are not used to dealing with a teacher before hand, kindergarten can be tough to adapt to. Like previously stated, if all children had the equal opportunity for preschool, the children, parent, and teachers would be able to adjust and not have bumps in the road. Teachers would be able to teach, parents would be able to be somewhat stress free when it comes to their child’s education, and the children would be able to develop at the right speed and maturity. No questions or arguments would have to be raised if the opportunity was equally