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One of the great things about being a child is sometimes what children mostly miss (and adults usually miss entirely): the opportunity to work toward …
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When I became an adult (wasn’t that just last year?), I put
away childish things so I could become the person I thought I wanted to be. It
never occ…
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Life has moments that, somehow, stamp themselves into you: catching water bugs in the shoals of a mountain lake on a cool June day; the surprise of a …
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Across this nation (and certainly here in our own little Head Start program) a majority of our children come from single-parent households, and nearly…
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The real truth of the matter is that it’s easy to forget how it was to be a child, and to do child-like things: learning to tie shoes, for example. Th…
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Let’s face it: one of the most important things to learn in
life is how it feels to be embarrassed – and how you’re going to respond. At
Head Start,…
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What makes life good is different for everybody. We’re a lucky bunch here at Head Start because we get to see – every day – the different things that …
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Every day, when many of our teachers get out of bed, they're in
the communities where they work. They come, most commonly, from the
same backgrounds…
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When Brenda Pickett came to work Wednesday morning at Head Start -- the
morning of her ninth wedding anniversary -- she never thought about
what mig…
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By Madonna Fajardo Kemp
When
I became a mother ten years ago, I decided to give up my career in
property management and focus on m…
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Children who learn how to do things for themselves are
nearly always happier children: more confident, more outgoing, and ever more
ready to take on…
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Sometimes, we’re the
first place children learn about how different they can be – and how that’s
really OK. At Head Start, we know that a girl can b…
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Whether it’s a playground scrape or something horrifyingly
worse, we like to think our teachers and family workers are ready to respond:
capable of …
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If you’ve ever felt math-o-phobic – or even been just
blind-sided by numbers – you’ll appreciate what many of our staff people feel
when faced with …
Revised 8 Jun 2006 by
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Our most seasoned teachers at Head Start – some of whom have
taught children in the same little community for 30 years and more – tell us
(repeatedl…
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Among the most delightful things we learn to do in life is
eat – some of us delighting in it more than others, still others delighting
more than we …
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Life isn’t always easy, and many of our children
(unfortunately) know that already. But one of the things we here at Head Start watch
them learn to …
Revised 8 Jun 2006 by
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Success comes in many forms, and at Head Start we often find the best successes – the ones that mean the most – are the small ones that come every day…
Revised 6 Jun 2006 by
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One of the great things about living in small towns like South
Pittsburg, Tennessee (or Jasper, or Whitwell, or Griffith Creek, or any
of a dozen li…
Revised 31 Aug 2006 by
Sequatchie Valley Head Start
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