By Robert Toporek | A brain is a terrible thing to waste
From the moment we are conceived our brains are growing a a faster rate unitl five or six. With a world of technology and knowledge of early brain science one would think that we could begin teaching every baby to read, do math, learn music and encyclopedic knowledge.
However there are forces in the universe particularly in this country that hide behind the statement age appropriate. While in Philadelphia there is an organization www.IAHP.org that teaches parents how to teach babies all of this wonderful stuff.
In addition I am pioneering the power and importance of touch in Early Childhood development. All of the things we propose were tried on my own son Bryan. By the time he was one he could count to one hundred in English and Spanish, and read more than one thousand words.
By the time he was two he had learned not only his alphabet but keys on a keyboard. He could turn a computer on, type on the keyboard and teach himself anything he wanted to learn. We started with reader rabbit, math rabbit, and language express. from there he went through all of their learning programs and more.
He had a massage from either his mother or me every day for the first three years and was breast fed for three years.
Despite the fact that I am not a college graduate, and his mother passed away when he was 10, he graduated 2nd in his class from high school, he was one of the first 400 kids accepted early into Georgetown. After Georgetown he worked for www.EDWEEK.org for five years. He was an online news editor, he took over their social media, he created a blog Sports in Education. By the time he was 23 he had written so many articles on concussions in sports hit was published as an eBook.
Now he is a senior copy editor for Bleacher report and his wife is in her 2nd year of residency at Vanderbilt.
However throughout our nation over half the kids can not read, write aor do math proficiently.
We have the technology to replace the Hubbell telescope yet we can not adequately teach kids to read Something is missing
www.teamchildren.org we are making a difference both by distributing low cost refurbished computers to families in need but by giving teens an opportunity to learn about technology and making a difference,.
We have the technology to insure that every baby is receiving a 21st century early childhood education whether they are in day care, preschool, or head start as a nation we need the will..
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