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| Teaching kids at a young age yields big return - ksl.com Posted: 09 Dec 2010 09:06 PM PST To view this video, you need to download the latest version Flash Player. Teaching kids at a young age yields big return December 9th, 2010 @ 10:08pm By Nadine Wimmer SOUTH SALT LAKE - Child advocates and educators are trying to make a case that the best bang for our education buck comes before kids even reach school age. Woodrow Wilson Elementary offers preschool programs, a summer tutoring program and extended day kindergarten to teach students at a young age how to read. "It gives us a chance to make the gap between the achievers and non-achievers," said all day kindergarten teacher Carma Ewer."It just gives us a chance to make that gap smaller." A recent report by the advocacy group Voices for American Children states that while parents are their childrens' first teacher. Public dollars greatly reinforce what goes on at home. They point to research that shows 85 percent of a child's brain develops by the time they're four, but only 4 percent of our education dollars go to children that age. "Every dollar we spend on those kids of things makes the dollar we spend on education in the classroom even better and more valuable," said Marsha Webster, a counselor at Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson has a partnership with the United Way that provides a learning center at the school. It not only helps early learners, but offers english and computer classes for their parents. E-mail: dwimmer@ksl.com  This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| What to do before the kids move back home - Cincinnati.com Posted: 09 Dec 2010 10:03 PM PST "I don't think he will ever move out," my friend says, her tone a mix of resignation and bitterness. "He" is her 30-something son who lost his job and moved back home. In the grand scheme of things - as North Korea and South Korea taunt each other and Iran continues its nuclear quest - a grown son disrupting his baby boomer parents' lives by eating up the groceries and slinging his clothes around the house hardly seems worth noting. Unless, of course, you are those parents. Then the issue of boomerang offspring who come winging back home is anything but trivial. On Sunday, The Enquirer's Forum cover story will focus on the sharp increase in what are known as "multigenerational households." A Pew Research Center study started the talk on a trend that's altering the home life of 46 million Americans. One out of six of us now lives with our adult parents, adult offspring, grandchildren or other extended family members. It's a social trend with huge economic, commercial and emotional implications. But it is also a very personal, poignant and sometimes painful story. For some families, it's one of quiet desperation. One of the few dreams Americans continue to hold dear is that of a hard-earned retirement. It is the reward at the end of a life of sacrifice, the freedom and pleasure after the endless grind of their jobs. Now, as their adult children lose jobs and move back home, as their aging parents realize they can't afford years in assisted living, many baby boomers see their retirement dreams flying out the window. Now they can't downsize, can't travel, have growing expenses and shrinking privacy. Much as they want to support extended family, some members of the Sandwich Generation think about their mother-in-law moving in with them and want to hang their head and cry. It's not that having families move in together has to be difficult. It can be a rich bonding experience for everyone involved. But this trend has quickly gotten out in front of the support services that could make it work. Few families do enough planning going into multigen living, experts say. They never think about how an older relative will deal with the noise of growing children in the household, or how they'll feel about the family dog. Parents agree to let their divorcing adult child move home with her three kids - and then realize they're the ones who will have to get the kids off the bus, or that the arrangement is causing hard feelings among their other adult children. Sunday's Forum is a chance for readers to think about the implications of sharing a home with other relatives, a trend that is not only growing quickly but promises to be around for a long, long time. It's also a chance to get some expert planning help. We hope the Forum package and chat are a source of information and support for your family. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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