benefits of preschool children in poverty?
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Are you saying you want to know the benefits of putting preschool children in poverty or the benefits of putting poor children in preschool?  I think your Q is worded kind of funny.  \nBenefits of any children in preschool include learning how to interact with other children, learning how to function in a structured school setting, increased immunity to sickness (early exposure makes them stronger and less susceptible in the future), etc.  There's all sorts of benefits.  Kids are sponges at that age, and any exposure to learning is only going to help them.  I think the biggest benefit (my opinion, of course) is that they become social creatures.  Often children who aren't around other children and away from their parents are more socially awkward.  They haven't learned how to share and be independent as opposed to children who have been in preschool.  For children of poverty, preschool is a way to help them "catch up" on things they may have missed at home.  Oftentimes parents in poverty are busy trying to make money for their families and can't devote time to important developments in their children's lives (reading comes to mind).  Check out the link below on Head Start.  I'm sure they've got all sorts of articles on it.
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I am a Preschool teacher so I can give you some tips of what to look for when searching for a good preschool. I would suggest looking in your local directory for all the preschools in your area. Call them up and ask them about fees and availability of places. Pick the ones that suit your budget best and organise to go and visit each of them. Call and make an appointment so that someone will be available to show you around. Here are some specific things to look for:\n* Look at the building. Is it clean and safe? Are there heaps of resources/toys for the children to play with?\n* What is the play area outside like? Is there room for the kids to run? Is the equipment safe and well maintained?\n* Are the staff friendly and happy?\n* Do the kids currently at the centre appear happy? Are they playing well or running around causing havoc?\n* Do the teachers plan for each child individually? Do they write down observations of what the child is doing and plan activities based on the children's interests and needs?\n* Have a look at the major policies, including child protection, behaviour management, and food preparation/diets (if food provided by centre).\n* What is your gut feeling telling you? If you are not confident, it will be harder for you to trust them with your child!!\n\nI hope this helps!
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the impact of early day-care experience in reference to the uprising amount of diagnosed cases of Autism.\n\nThe age in which children benefit more from a preschool experience.  Should they start before 4?\n\nThe most beneficial type of pre-school as it relates to academic standing later in life.
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It depends on what state you are in. There are lots of non-profits that cater to preschools or ECE, but lots of times you will have to advertise their foundation at different events you have throughout the year. \n\nThere are websites you can go to that will tell you of foundationsi in your state. Also, you should have a local non-profit org. that keeps track of these foundations... Try www. grants.com.
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Well, any decent sized town should have a church or non-church based day-care or preschool.  If your kid(s) are school aged, consider hitting up a neighbor with whom you and your child are both familiar.
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Being the youngest child in your class is tough enough when it is just months' difference.  When there is an actual maturational difference as well, it can be nearly impossible.  Having been the last kid to notice girls, to start swearing, and to not openly play with toys made my life very difficult.  It also made me have to "grow up" faster than was my natural rate.  \nSkipping grades has its benefits, but mostly it's about the pride, as parents, of telling your friends how smart your kid is.  I think, all things equal, it might be better to introduce challenge to your child's life by adding afterschool and weekend activities (like music lessons, art instruction, foster Grandparents and similar volunteer programs, etc.).  Even the smartest of kids benefit from a full plate of diverse activities.
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I am a Preschool teacher so I can give you some tips of what to look for when searching for a good preschool. I would suggest looking in your local directory for all the preschools in your area. Call them up and ask them about fees and availability of places. Pick the ones that seem best and organise to go and visit each of them. Call and make an appointment so that someone will be available to show you around. Here are some specific things to look for:\n* Look at the building. Is it clean and safe? Are there heaps of resources/toys for the children to play with?\n* What is the play area outside like? Is there room for the kids to run? Is the equipment safe and well maintained?\n* Are the staff friendly and happy? Are they standing back talking to each other or are they sitting down with the kids and interacting with them?\n* Do the kids currently at the centre appear happy? Are they playing well or running around causing havoc?\n* Do the teachers plan for each child individually? Do they write down observations of what the child is doing and plan activities based on the children's interests and needs?\n* Have a look at the major policies, including child protection, behaviour management, and food preparation/diets (if food provided by centre).\n* What is your gut feeling telling you? If you are not confident, it will be harder for you to trust them with your child!!\n\nI hope this helps!
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There are many a reasons for poverty a few are:\n\n1.The govt policies plays the major role in the eradication of poverty.\n\n2.In a few coutries even today  people are working under landlords to fulfill the debts made by their great grandfaters.(what ever they earn is taken by the landlords)\nit cuases "Rich to get still richer and poor still poorer".\n\n3.Selfishness of people(there are large families living even if each one donate 2% of their profit/income that will make a large sum should be helpful to uplift poor one's)\n\n4.Alchol...in most of the countries the poor people get the chance the reframe their lives...with what ever a little amount they earn but the addiction to alchol....take away the chance!!\n\n5.Dishonest politicians.....remember the developed coutries and many minority/christian orginizations send millions of dollars ...but they do not reach the right people(poor)...infact these so called politicians transfer the amount to swiss acounts.\n\n6.The hectic life styles and lack of spirituality...Im sure every religion...[ex:in Islam it is called zakat(donating some %age of amount to poor)]....what ever religion...every religion encourages the charity and donations to poor.\n\n7.Others are standard reasons which we have studied in our books like unemployment...population....\n\n:)
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People I've met that stay on welfare end up in a better financial situation then working full-time for minimum wage. Plus if you have children who need daycare, you end up working to pay the babysitter. It's a shame b/c continuing their education would get them a better job but either they don't think of it that way or they're lazy and don't want to try. This country definitely needs welfare reform AND disability reform. I've seen too many people take advantage of the system!
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I teach preschool.   I love it.  There is nothing more rewarding then seeing their faces and their eagerness to learn.
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some times if you look into daycare they offer preschool programs that are any time of the day. Daycare teaches the basic's of kindergarden
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you need to be more specific , i don't know if this will will help . i found a lot on the ten state survey but like i said you need to state exactly what you are looking for. sorry.\n\nPoverty and Nutrition Risk\nAn underlying premise of the WIC program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) is that low-income predisposes women, infants, and children to poor nutrition status and health outcomes. By using both an income standard of up to 185 percent of the federal poverty level and nutrition risk criteria in determining eligibility for participation in the WIC program, the WIC program attempts to target scarce program resources to those individuals with limited economic resources who are at the highest risk of poor outcomes. Before reviewing (in subsequent chapters) the scientific evidence relating to the nutrition risk criteria used to establish eligibility for participation in the WIC program, this chapter presents evidence of low-income, or poverty, as a predisposing nutrition risk factor for women, infants, and children.\n\nDefinition of Poverty\nConsiderable controversy exists over how to define and measure poverty. A recent expert panel defined poverty as ''economic deprivation," reflecting inadequate economic resources for the consumption of basic goods and services (NRC, 1995). Poverty standards are generally called absolute measures and are based on the assumption that there is some objective minimum level of either income or consumption such that if economic resources are less than this minimum standard, individuals and families do not have adequate resources to satisfy their basic needs (Ruggles, 1990). Families and individuals are classified as being in poverty if their incomes are less than official poverty thresholds. The poverty measure was initially constructed by determining the cost of a nutritionally adequate low-cost food plan (then the Economy Food Plan, now the
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Thank goodness this proposition didn't pass.  Taxing the wealthy (an individual earning $400,000 anually or $800,000 for a couple) to fund preschool is a lame idea.  Why would you penalize those people with money for the benefit of society?  If everyone were to actually benefit from this proposition, then everyone should pitch in -- especially the parents of those pre-school kids!
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In most states, NO! The government tends to only reward single-mother's who don't work. These women's sugardaddy, uncle SAM, seems to encourage single-mother's to stay at home and live on some type of assistance until the end of time, I say this because SAM will take care of them only if they don't work and never marry. And on top of that if they have more children, they get more benefits, crazy. There are so many single-moms, and dads like me that work fulltime with no help from anyone, I don't mind this but there are some that are on the edge of finances and need just a little help to stay afloat but SAM refuses because they make too much, or they own a car that's worth 2-3,000 and are denied any benefits. Help the people who try not the ones who give up. Good Luck.
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School is a great playground for kindergarten-age children. I remember having a smart 4-year old in my class when school started in September, and he was shy but brilliant. At first it was a little rough for him socially because he was afraid to open up, but I'm sure that with some motherly encouragement he'll make it through.\n\nIt will benefit him if he gets an early start to his education! I graduated among the youngest in my class and it was nice to be younger while accomplishing the same things as your peers, because you have a sort of head start. \n\nI think it's best to go on your gut instinct on this one. Good luck!
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This is a very hard question to answer. We know that all these issues are important. Education is often the way out of poverty, but children have a hard time learning if they are hungry, ill, or live in unsafe conditions. Yet, it is not enough just to give people health care, food, and shelter. Somehow we have to give them these things, but also give them hope for the future. Somehow we have to do it all. Head Start and Even Start are great programs and they do help. They give children nutrition, health care, and education. Hopefully their families are getting adequate housing at the same time. Workforce job training is a good program if people can be trained in jobs that are in demand and if they can be transitioned into jobs and not just have the rug pulled out from under them as soon as they get a paycheck. Somehow, I still feel that education and training is what is going to give the biggest bang for the buck, but only with the necessary support services to see individuals in poverty through to the end. I have heard it said that many of the education/training programs attempt to give a hand up, not a hand out. I think that is probably true. Nothing can raise a person's self-esteem like feeling like they are successful. Education can do that, whether it is completing pre-school, high school, or college. For that reason, I still feel education is the best way to fight poverty.
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There will always be poverty.   They can not be eliminated.   Some poverty exists because of the poor fortune people had.   But some are because of people not willing to do their best and work themselves up.\n\nThe question may how to reduce the poverty.      We must look at what are the most basic thing that keeps people down.\n1. housing\n2. medical expenses\n3. educations\n4. jobs\n\nIf only we can help/assist people with the needs for affordable help on the four major categories,  many people still stuck at or below poverty line.