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Community Education In Child: Progress is being made in community education in child development. Most effective is the community health program concerned with all phases of development—physical, menial, and emotional—with lectures, pamphlets, and seminars reaching the persons most concerned with child care and education—parents, doctors, nurses, and teachers. An important part of such a program is an excellent series of loose-leaf bulletins containing sound, simple, eminently practical suggestions organized chronologically to follow the baby's growth. By reading these bulletins while still in the hospital, the mother acquires sound information and attitudes before assuming the full responsibility of caring for the baby and the household.
With the co-operation of child, family and community, it should be possible for early years educators to compile a profile of the young bilingual. Information might include the language used by the mother and/or father, the name of a relative or friend willing to interpret for school or parents, the child's preferred language for communication with siblings, the effects of school life, conducted in English, on social behaviour and interpersonal relationships, as well as academic achievements.
Teachers need to know which languages the child is able to read, write and understand, and whether the child speaks a standard form of first language or a related dialect. Gravelle (1996) addresses the issue of terminology such as first, home, community, heritage, preferred language and mother tongue - all of which are used in the context of education, but which can be inaccurately applied.
The importance of services and provisions strengthen families and to shore up parental ( pacity as needed is basic to child welfare. T parents, the child, and the general society each ha a role in developing child welfare.
Role of Parents. In modern society, parents a expected to provide the income needed to asst food, clothing, shelter, education and recreatio meet emotional needs, stimulate intellectual growt discipline the child to develop behavior and at tudes acceptable to society; protect the child fro physical, emotional or social harm; present a mod with which to identify; maintain family interacts on a stable satisfying basis; and provide a fix( place of abode and a clearly defined "place" f the child in the community.
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