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As a parent, you would always want to ensure that your child develops in the right stages. One of these developments include reading and language skills. Most parents would be proud if their children learned to read and speak earlier than most children but there is really no right age that a child must know when to do these.

What most parents do not know is that reading is an acquired skill from birth. This is affected by various language skills that help them develop in reading. This is a fairly complicated process but amazes most people too. The progress of learning how to read involves certain skills which are learned as they progress from one stage to another.

I. Birth to 1 year
At this stage, you might even think that it is impossible to do anything that will affect the reading skills of your child. You may want to start at this early age of development to create a learning atmosphere for your child. Do read to your child constantly at this age. It is important that you show her the pictures in the books that you use. Observe how your child responds because you will know if she is interested in story telling time.

II. 1 to 3 years

At these ages, your children will be in a crucial stage when it comes to the learning process. This is when she will learn how to talk, making room to learn more language skills, especially reading. Statr teaching your child how to read the alphabet. Knowing the alphabet can really go a long way in your child’s development. You need to make sure that you have interaction when you tech your child how to read. When reading, do make gestures and facial expressions that they can associate with certain emotions. It is also recommended to read animal stories, and accompany it with matching animal sounds. Kids really love animal stories at this age.

You should read a lot and even make it a habit to read to your child. This is when you will be able to teach them. There are picture books that show pictures of words that children might associate with. You may start teaching them how to read words or even phrases.

III. 3 to 4 years

During preschool, your child will further her reading skills since they will start going to school now. They will spend most of their time interacting with other people. Most school activities will include their teacher reading to them storybooks, mostly fairy tales. You child may even have a favourite character and imitate them. You may start teaching them how to write and how to read more difficult words as well as sentences. You need to teach your child how to handle the books properly.

There are some signs and labels that your kid must be familiar with like stop signs, female and male signs and others that will be helpful when they are left in school without you. Most importantly, teach them how to ask if they are unsure of the signs that they are reading. Teach them phrases like “I love you” or “Thank you’. These are phrases which they can use in preschool when interacting with the teacher or fellow students.

IV. 5 years
At kindergarten, you may need to ask them if they want to read the lines or words for you. This can be great training for the kid so that they will not be afraid to learn. Allow them to read to you and actually listen to them. Explain to them that reading should be done left to right going down the page. Start playing reading games, giving a prize for every correct word that they read. Also, if they know the meaning or if they can give a word that starts with that letter, she will get a special prize. They may also work with familiarity with starting sounds as well as ending sounds. Kids love to associate things and find that this is an effective method, do allow them to discover their way of learning.

Subtly correct them if they make mistakes, but do not make them feel that they have done a big mistake. This will discourage them from reading in the future. Descriptive language is recommended when asking questions. You may make learning a fun experience by engaging in rhyming games. You can now match written words with spoken ones so that they may be able to comprehend phrases as well as sentences.

V. 6 years old

This is the culminating stage of the reading process. Sure enough, beyond the first-grade, children will still continue the reading process, but more or else, your child will have an idea on how to read properly. Rereading stories are what kids this age do best, they will reread their favourite stories to anyone, including you. You may want to incorporate a game where you predict what will happen, or asking questions about the story and they must find the answers in the book. Ask them to read aloud, and be proud of what they are reading. They will be confident that what they are doing is right and allow them to enjoy that freedom when they read to you. Yes, children love the idea that they are given a change to read a story with print, picture clues and memory. They will be able to associate stories with these elements. Let them learn new words by associating phonetics with similar words and you may even help them if they are having difficulty.

Ask them to identify new words just by looking at them and figuring out how to read them. You may throw in a little vocabulary so that they will know what those words are when they start to read them in a sentence. Besides from this, you need to teach them how to write sentences and how they feel. They need to learn punctuations, capitalizations and the right way of combining words to form meaning.

The developmental stage of your child is very crucial. You need to take each stage seriously as part of their learning process. Build interest in reading because this can really be a big part of your child’s development. There are so much that they can learn from reading so do not take this skill for granted

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Times are changing. Mothers of today are composed of career women rather than housewives. They are focused on earning money and saving up for the future of their family. This is why most mothers rely on day care centers to watch their children for them while they are away from home.

Kids are great and children can be adorable. Maybe you can watch a kid or two during your free time as a favor and enjoy it. You may even think to yourself that since you love children so much, why don’t you put up a day care business?

As with any business, you need to passion in order to succeed. You need to be sure that this is really what you want before starting. You need careful strategizing on how this business will go. Before anything, you need to fix the finance, how much capital you need to invest. You also need to device a specific day care accounting plan, as to what future expenses and liabilities you will need. Monitoring finances is a big factor when it comes to this, you need to ensure that you are giving the best service to you clients.

When you have finally decided to start a business, you need to think of the best location, purposes, accommodation, facilities, and benefits that you can give to your clients. First and foremost, the location must be chosen well. The best place to start a business is a place where there is not much competition. It will be useless to start a business where there are so many day care centers and that they may already have loyal clients. In this case, you need to build your name, find something unique in order to stand out and draw customers.

A plan is needed, what are the specific rules and regulations that you will implement. Of course, kids can be a little out of control at times and strict implementation of what must or must not be done should be followed. The facilities must be children-friendly, safe for them and will not cause harm when they run around the place since children have no concept of what could be dangerous for them. Toys and outdoor activities must be well planned, in order to ensure safety. There are so many things that kids enjoy but care must be taken care when they play with these.

Finding the employees and staff is one more thing that needs to be carefully chosen. Dealing with children requires physical, mental, emotional and social skills. There are so many things that need to be considered when kids are involved. This is the peak at which children learn so many things so what they learn at this stage, they will carry until they grow up. There are also thing that may traumatize them if there are bad experiences at this stage. They need to be alert and aware of the possible danger that the kids may get in. There must really be professional training for the people you hire.

We must be aware that danger is just waiting around the corner when it comes to kids. 24/7 surveillance must be done. Should accidents happen, you must have insurance ready. It is better to be safe than sorry. If they get into accidents, at least your clients are sure that you will take care of their children.

Further improvements must be kept in mind. Children have different needs and these are changing through time. You must be able to cope up with these changes or even have a wide selection of amenities for them. There must be toys, books, art materials and other things that make them feel at home.

With a high number of working mothers out there, there might be a chance that they will all rely on day care centers to take care of their children. It would be better if there is a limit on the number of children as well as the age of the children that you will accept per day. Too many kids can be stressful at times. You must have an idea on the number of children you are willing to accept since this will determine the size of the day care, number of toys, books and especially the number of staff that you will hire. They must only be enough to take care of the children. If there are too many children and the staff is not enough, then it will defeat the purpose of a dayc are. The reason why the parents leave their children to day care centers is because they need someone to be their eyes, the second mother. They must be sure that the day care centers give the same care that they are willing to give their children.

Also, you must need to be in touch with the parents. This is really important, if there are any problems when it comes to their children, you must inform the parents about this. You need to build trust with the parents to keep them coming back. As parents, they will really find it hard to entrust the safety of their children to someone else whom they do not even know. They should be aware of the situation of their children.

Most importantly, you need to know if there are any special requests that the parents have. You need to grant these requests or if not, at least come up with a compromise. You must inquire is there are any conditions that the children has that need special care or if any health concerns.

A daycare business is not as simple as building one for the kids. As fun as it may sound, this is still a business and there are so many things that must be considered in setting up a business in order to be successful. Just put your heart into it and you will be able to strategize well. Gather up everything you need and it will be a sure shot that your day care business will be a hit.

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