The Importance of Early Childhood Education

Nowadays, education becomes top priority or necessity that must be

owned by people. They compete to achieve higher education in order to be
successful in this modern age. Parents also have prepared their children by
supplying them proper education from earlier. They send their children in
qualified schools starting from kindergarten, elementary, junior high school, high
school up to high-level education such as university or other high schools. This is
a good thing. However, they forget that early childhood education is also known
by PAUD is essential. In fact, the early childhood education plays an important
role in determining their success in the future. The reason why early childhood
education is very important is that it prepares children mental before they enter
the real period of education. Commonly, children under five are still stiff even
scared by the new atmosphere and the new people around them. Therefore they
need to be introduced by the schools situation and also new people who will they
meet such as teachers, friends and others. This will make them accustomed to
learning in the classroom so that they do not feel odd or even shocked to learn in
elementary school. There are some problems that was listed about The Importance
of Early Childhood Education such as:
1. What is the Advantages of Early Childhood Education?
2. What is the Disadvantages of Early Childhood Education?
3. What is the best way to inform the people about the Importance of Early
Childhood Education?
Now we will discuss about it and try to answer the questions one by one.
Early childhood is a crucial stage of life in terms of a child's physical,
intellectual, emotional and social development. Growth of mental and physical
abilities progress at an astounding rate and a very high proportion of learning
takes place from birth to age six. It is a time when children particularly need high
quality personal care and learning experiences. There are severals advantage that
the children would get if they are having the early childhood education such as :

1. Getting on with others

ECE helps your child learn to get on well with other children and with adults
by learning to:

Make friends, to share and take turns, and to co-operate

Listen to others and to communicate their own ideas

Be independent and to take responsibility for others needs as well as for

their own.

2. Doing better at school

Children who take part regularly in quality ECE are likely to be confident and
curious about the world, and this can help them do better when they go to
school or kura. ECE supports your child to:

Become resilient to manage challenges and to stick at it when things get

difficult

Settle more easily at school or kura and to get the benefits of education
more quickly

Become life-long learners, for example:

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talking, singing, and listening to stories build childrens language

skills and help them to love books and reading

painting, dancing, making music, dressing up, and pretend play

help to develop childrens imaginations and creativity

puzzles, number play, and counting games help children to

understand maths concepts

building or construction activities, helping to prepare food, caring

for plants and animals, and playing with water and sand (measuring and
mixing) support children to learn about maths and science concepts.

Everything has the positive points and the negative points. After we discuss about
the advantages of early childhood education, now we will discuss about the
disadvantages of early childhood education.

The preschool program needs to be expertly drafted, so that your child

learns all the right things.

The schools should have experienced teachers who are aware of the unique
condition children going through at this particular period.

If the curriculum is not good, it can damage your childs learning process,
attention span and attitude towards classes. If the program, or the teacher, is not
good enough, your childs learning and experiential knowledge will be
hampered.

If the children in the school are not closely monitored, they might take to
negative habits. This is the period when your child learns of the world around
him. If he is exposed to bullying or fighting at this age, it will carry on to the
future as well.

Some traditional belief systems think that children can learn a lot more
about the world, social interactions, manners, etc. by staying at home, with his
family. There is some truth in this saying, according to popular census.

Then how do we educate people about the importance of early childhood

education? Author thinks that the goverment could give the information about The
Importance of Early Childhood Education to the parents by puting some ads in the
TVs or even put in Internet because almost everyone have TVs and Internet in
their houses right now. We could use the technology to give a good influence to
the people.
In short, early childhood education is necessary for children under age of
five years before entering the real school period. Early childhood education helps
them to introduce the school and also helps them develop their potencies. Parents
should send their children into early childhood education (PAUD) first before
sending them to Elementary School.
References :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education

http://parents.education.govt.nz/early-learning/early-childhoodeducation/benefits-of-early-childhood-education/
http://www.momjunction.com/articles/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-sendingyour-child-to-preschool_0077393/