School is around the corner and here are a few facts and findings before child care, preschool and kindergarten open for many parents.
Babies apparently get stressed out and remember when mom or dad leaves them, a study out of Canada found.
It isn’t just emotional for parents. A new study shows that when babies as young as six months old are stressed, they have a biological response and can remember it for at least 24 hours.— “Babies feel and remember stress when parents don’t respond.” Parentcentral.ca. 8/25/10.
In this country, the U.S. Census Bureau found more than half of three- and-four-year olds, 53 percent, were in school in 2008.
And nearly three-quarters, 72 percent, of children age 3 to 6 who were in kindergarten attended school all day in 2008, according to the same report, “Back to School: 2010-2011.”
In the not shocking category, children are less likely to be in child care during the summer, the Census said in a separate report “Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2005/Summer 2006,” with 55 percent of preschoolers not in regular child care.
Back in Washington D.C., the U.S. Education Department announced the second wave of Race to the Top winners (Washington State did not make the cut). Check out Early Ed Watch’s take on “How Will ‘Race to the Top’ Winners Address Early Ed?”