Time magazine recently did an article that claims a huge correlation between preschool attendance and lowered crime, better education and income levels, and reduced addiction rates among the poor. They claim that spending more money on funding quality preschools would therefore be more effective than things like "cracking down on crime" programs (I guess that means increased police force?).
Read the whole article here.
Today we went outside to the field and ran around.
This involved a lot of the kids "locking me in prison" and a little bit of hot potato with some number bean bags (trying to get kids to recognize that "seven" is the same as "7" or "three" the same as "3"). It involved some writing our names in the dirt and it also involved rainbow ribbons and twirling them in the air while catching bubbles.
Visually, it looked and felt like this, because the sky was so blue and the ribbons so bright.
While running after one of my little girls to tag her with the ribbons, and she was giggling so hard, I was just...grateful. Grateful that I came here and that she knows me and that I know her.
This particular little girl loves to "paint" my fingernails and put on "eyeshadow." She can shake her what her momma gave her like a little Shakira. This morning she was crying after she was dropped off and I just put my arm around her and held her. Then we read a book about spaghetti. She thinks it's hilarious to tell me how Isaac's got a giiiiirlllllfriennnnnnd. She can write her name almost perfectly.
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
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