FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS

Cradle to College

The academic skill level of your child on the first day of school has a huge impact on the rest of your child's educational career and the trajectory of the rest of his or her life. If your child starts ahead, he gets a strong start. If he starts behind, he struggles when he starts. And the good news is that for most parents, you pretty well get to choose where your child starts.

Extraordinary parents smooth the pathway of their children. They hold the vision for their infants, weave expectations around them, and guide with firm hands their tottering young feet down pathways and toward objectives that sometimes only they can see.

Extraordinary moms and dads do ordinary things. Few of the things are particularly hard.  What is extraordinary is that you do them over and over again every day.  You do those ordinary things for years and do not lose focus or interest.  That's what is hard.

Holding that vision from cradle to kindergarten is hard.  Kindergarten starting points determine whether children, with ordinary growth, will start ahead or start behind.  Starting ahead means your children will feel good about themselves, will look forward to going to school, and will make the effort to stay ahead.  Extraordinary parents give that gift to their children.

Holding that vision from kindergarten through college is what you do next.  The path is already smoothed.  The vision is already in place.  Your children are already ahead without the burden of difficult catch-up growth.  Your children usually stay ahead as your skillful parenting supports their high levels of academic achievement and personal goals.  Your skill and dedication, by itself, may determine whether your child will have a university experience.

READY! for Kindergarten is an invitation to extraordinary parents.

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