LOOKING FORWARD

One of the consequences of caring for children and families in my community is that helping children enable them shape how their brain develop because bonding and attachment in early infancy age are critical to the child’s normal development. Children who lack proper bonding will be detached in life and will find it difficult to relate with people. A child that does not have a bond with the parents, family and caregivers will perceive herself as being a loner and not having support resources and also manifest low self-esteem. Proper bonding will translate to proper development of the child. High quality early learning experience is important to children because it helps in nurturing and bonding that is assured. There should be enough funding from the state to help families facing challenges to get services that can help and support them. Disadvantaged and special need children need to have access to programs that provides early learning, early intervention, health and family supports to help children reach their full potential. “It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult----choose your words wisely” unknown author.   

Children learn best through play. For children to have a quality education, it has to be through play. Play helps children use their hands on activities for learning about life. Children make sense of the world around them through play and manipulative. Play helps children develop skills they can not otherwise know. A high quality early childhood education with play will benefit children with special needs in helping them interact, communicate and learn. “Good teaching is one–fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater.” Gail Godwin.

Family situation and environment affect children emotionally because the government needs to invest on childhood education to prepare them for school  readiness. When families are provided with resources to help their children it makes their life better and easier. I know a lot of immigrant families that need services to help their community, I am glad to be in the early childhood education program with child advocacy and policies. “Having a place to go - is a home, having someone to love- is a family, having both – is a blessing.” Donna Hedges.  “If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.”  Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

My goal is to put together an early education system that helps promote high quality early education and destressing the lives of families and their children, by utilizing the services of health professionals, early learning experience and development, and family leadership and support.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank all my colleagues for their insights and contributions to what I know today. May God bless you all as we move forward in becoming children advocates.