It is an embarrassing scene. The old lady standing behind you in
the grocery store check out line asks your young son how old he
is. He responds, "Jon!" You wonder how you missed teaching him
that one. The truth is that you are not an expert at early
childhood education and your home is not a child development
center. While it seems like a cruel joke that you have quit your
demanding job in order to be home with him more, the reality is
that he still needs the experience of a good early child
development center. If a child is engaged in a learning
environment as young as three and four years old, he has the
benefit of a solid foundation for his future years of education.
While it may seem trivial to you, who knows the alphabet
proficiently, it is not trivial to him. In a prekindergarten
program, a child learns his letters and the sounds that they
make. Reading will come so much easier to him. He will learn to
count, his foundation for math skills. The classroom setting can
be intimidating for a first time kin