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jack | born 9.13.12 at 40w4d | 9 lbs 12 oz | 23 in
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Fascinating NPR Story - Achievement Gap/Speaking to Children
Some of you may have heard this story on your way to work today. If you didn't, you really should listen to it.
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/10/132740565/closing-the-achievement-gap-with-baby-talk
Obviously, teaching lower income families to speak to their children isn't going to solve the achievement gap, but it certainly doesn't hurt to start somewhere! I just thought this story was really interesting and thought I'd share a bit of brain food for a Monday morning.
jack | born 9.13.12 at 40w4d | 9 lbs 12 oz | 23 in
my puppy loves - chloe & jenson
pregnancy blog | chart
Re: Fascinating NPR Story - Achievement Gap/Speaking to Children
It's amazing what the vocabulary difference is between kids who have been read to and kids who have not.....the gap can be HUGE when they enter preschool/kindergarten.
I wish we had fully funded public PARENT education - that would make such a difference!
YES! Or at least parents who receive assistance from the County/State would have education available to them to help them.
I realize this is just a guess/speculation, but I know that it doesn't come naturally to all people to just babble at their babies. They either don't feel comfortable just talking to someone that is so small and can't understand. Or they are a young parent and maybe don't understand. Or they are distracted with trying to work xx number of jobs to support the family so they are tired and talking to the baby isn't high on the priority list when there are so many other needs. As always, it's not a simple issue... it has to do with education, it has to do with environment, it has to do with health, stress, work...
I could go on forever..
jack | born 9.13.12 at 40w4d | 9 lbs 12 oz | 23 in
my puppy loves - chloe & jenson
pregnancy blog | chart
I teach 4th grade and although it's not as wide of a gap as kindergarten/preschool, I bet I could tell you which of my students were not read to/talked to much as a child. It really is sad that something so simple can make such a difference in the life of a child. I buy books for every baby shower/gift...at least I know they'll have a few books to read to their child.
ETA: the sad part isn't that it's so simple, the sad part is that some parents don't do it/aren't aware that something so simple can make such a huge difference.
Baby Boy born 5.3.15
My sister teaches 3rd grade in North Minneapolis and she would agree with you whole heartedly! Some parents just do NOT care one iota about their child's education. It is really really sad. :-(