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Looking at a pre-school photo of myself circa 1988, I’m struck in particular by two things. First, it seems there was a time in my life when I actually had two distinct eyebrows without plucking. More importantly, though, is the red hair: it’s a long story involving ear wax and hydrogen peroxide but I won’t bore you with the details...
...SARS mania spread faster than lice in a pre-school? One explanation is the unwillingness of public health authorities to take any threatened disease lightly. If SARS were to cause many deaths in the U.S., public health authorities would look foolish if they failed to mount a vigorous response in the initial stages of the outbreak. This uncertainly gives officials an incentive to play up the threat of the virus...
Perhaps the best way to keep a difficult baby from becoming an impossible child is to practice preventive parenting--something some parents do naturally. When a baby is resistant to novelty, parents must finesse how they present new things. Well before the first day of pre-school, parents can begin slowly exposing the child to the idea: go for a drive to the school one day, return for a walk around the halls the next. "Give the child lead time," says Dr. William B. Carey, professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, "but insist the change be made...
...proposal would make Head Start a sort of skeleton for a universal pre-school program. Do you agree with that proposal...
...Head start is a very good starting point for a universal pre-school program. Since its inception, Head Start has aspired to do a couple of things that I think are very important. It has aspired to get parents involved, in one way or another, in their children?s education. I also think it?s wonderful because the program takes a developmental approach to early childhood education - rather than taking an elementary school program and watering it down...