My Connections With Play

"Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
Ex: Last year, I had a little girl in my class that parent didn't really care and brothers and sisters doing her homework.This year, shes in Kindergarten but they are thinking about holding her back for another year.

"If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs."
- Paul Vallas quotes
Ex: I'm trying get more of my Pre-K kids in the 21st Century AfterSchool Program.

I have so many childhood memories of creating and enjoying lots of free, unstructured play. I was the child who was always playing and making things with water and mud, homemade cakes and cookies made on the stove, and mud. I could go for hours with my craft supplies. I made clothes, food, books, murals, gifts, and cards. I loved when we use to go play in the fields with the dogs.

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is the feeding of an infant or young child with breast milk directly from female human breasts rather than from a baby bottle or other container. Babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. Most mothers can breastfeed for six months or more, without the addition of infant formula or solid food. Human breast milk is the healthiest form of milk for human babies. Breastfeeding promotes health, helps to prevent disease, and reduces health care and feeding costs. Artificial feeding is associated with more deaths from diarrhea in infants in both developing and developed countries.
In Kenya breastfeeding is the most preferred way to feed infants unless there are some contraindications. Breastfeeding in public is not an issue. I have seen moms do it in public buses and in public places. If baby cries they will just take their breasts out, although they cover with a baby blanket. In rural areas, most often they don't care. It's something everybody is used to, they just take their breasts out regardless of how many people are might see them. Respect to all breastfeeding moms. Most of the Africans always tell people “that's the way to go, keep your kids healthy and smart.” If you want to know the difference between breastfed and formula fed, just look around any town in America, they have group homes or special homes with kids with emotional problems and very low IQ, they trade this for their boobs!!! Breastfeeding or not, boobs naturally sag due to increased size and number of milk ducts due to pregnancy.

• I will start telling mothers how good breastfeeding is and how it had a huge impact on mothers from all over the world.
• When I have papers to do and it questions why breastfeeding is healthier or better than Enfamil and etc., I will compare them based on data from hospitals.