Raising Successful Kids: Picking the Right School Starts Earlier Than Parents Think

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Choosing the right program that meets the unique needs of a child also has benefits beyond the immediate ones. We have all seen parents who push their children in high school or college to pursue a field of study, sport, or other extracurricular activity to make mom and dad “happy,” neglecting the needs of the child. Dr. Calvin Moore, Jr., CEO, Council for Professional Recognition Comedians love to make jokes about how things are different from when they were growing up. Many start with something like this: “In my day we had to actually pick up the phone and ask who it was to know who was calling us.” While we laugh about how technology has rapidly changed our lives from one generation to the next, more parents need to embrace this reality as it relates to education. The place to start is when parents make that first critical decision about where to send their child for early childhood education. Too often we see parents picking a program based on their memories of what daycare was like for them. They did not like the preschool at the church decades ago, so they will never enroll their little...