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It's never too early to start teaching your child to read, or at least lay the foundations for early literacy, and it can certainly be left too late! If you are not sure then think about it. Statistically, more American children suffer long-term harm to life throughout the process of learning to read than parental abuse, accidents and all other childhood diseases and disorders combined. In purely economic terms, reading difficulties associated costs our nation more than the war against terrorism, crime, and drugs combined. Reading problems are another challenge to our world by contribute significantly to the perpetuation of socio-economic, racial and ethnic groups. However it is not only poor children and minorities who struggle with reading. According to the map 2002 of the National Reading Report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), most of our children (64%) are less competent in reading, even after 12 years of our attempts to teach them. Even without knowing these worrisome statistics we are aware that reading proficiency is key to success - not only academically but in life. As the U.S. federal government and states teachers: "No jurisdiction other subjects taught in school and learned by school children is more important that reading is the gateway to all other knowledge to teach students read by the end of the third year is the most important .. task assigned to elementary schools. Those who learn to read with ease in the early years have a base on which to build new knowledge. Those who do are doomed to repeated cycles of frustration and failure. "More than any other subject or skill, the future of our children are determined by how they learn to read. Reading is absolutely fundamental. It has been said so often that it became meaningless, but he does not deny its truth. In our society, our world, the inability to read consigns children to failure in school and provides adults with the lowest strata of job opportunities and life. And just when we thought the stakes could not get more, during the last decade, the results of educational research found that how children learn to read has other, yet the consequences more life shaping. Most children begin learning to read during a profoundly formative phase in their development. As they begin to learn to read, they are also learning to think abstractly. They learn to learn and they are experiencing emotional feelings about who they are and how they learn. What does this mean? Most children who struggle with reading blame themselves. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the process of learning to read teaches these children to be ashamed of themselves - ashamed of their minds - ashamed of how they learn. And the sad truth is that they have nothing to be ashamed. As Dr. Grover Whitehurst, Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, Assistant Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education (2003) says: "Failed to read for children of almost all is not the failure of the child, the failure of politicians, school failure, the failure of teachers and no parents. We need to rethink what it means to learn to read and who is responsible for its success if we will solve the problem. "Do you wait for policy makers to find a solution? Do you trust them? Or do you ensure that work is well done in supporting yourself? I know what my answer is because I know first-hand witnesses difficulties throughout the life of my brother what an irrevocable impact a reading struggle early in life can bring. It can mark your child for life! I am not promising that your child can learn to read early or do not have trouble. After all, there are a large number of children with learning disabilities. These children will struggle. However, early education can alleviate their suffering and make the fight a little easier to handle. At the very least you'll know you've done everything to help your child and your child will know as well. This can not be a waste of energy! And you have a head start on every educator because you know your child - herr temperament, strengths and weaknesses. You are the person best equipped to begin teaching your child. So we return to the central question when education should begin reading to your child? Traditional American Education models call for teaching a child to read between the ages of 7-9. Obviously, we can not begin to teach a baby to read. However, we can begin in early childhood to lay the foundation for literacy which, at the end of your child a better reader. Literacy is defined as the ability of an individual to read, write and speak English, compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, the family of the individual, and the society. Many simple things we do at home with our children support the development of literacy so that you are already working to make your child more educated, even if you are not actively begin the process of learning to your child to read. This includes simple activities such as reading to your child, reciting nursery rhymes and songs. But what if you want to become a more active participant? There are many things you can do and this does not mean you have to invest hundreds of dollars in an expensive reading program. You do not really need to spend much money at all to teach your child to read at home or at least prepare your child for early reading instruction in school. Most parents already have the tools you need in your home to get started today! That is why I emphasize that it is never too early to start, if you work with your child's development and make learning fun and interesting and difficult. My strategy is essential for educators to create learning opportunities and out of the way of my students so they can learn. Learning is an active experience that should fully engage the participant. I think when I'm "teaching" that the student is passively involved in the learning process. I see myself more as a guide and a resource teacher in my class. I took this approach with the education of my son and he was very successful. We have various learning toys and aids in our house and there are many lessons take place each day (at home and outside) but I've never drilled on facts or even used flashcards. If you can find ways to make learning fun and exciting, something your child wants to do with you-then begin as soon as possible. Your child will have a chance to dry lectures, mind-numbing repetitive drills, and boring lessons as they grow so do not even go there. If you can not make learning fun and more like a game, and then do not even go there. Trust your child's education for professionals and hope for the best. Remember, there are many wonderful teachers out there if your child is not doomed to failure, even if you do not intervene. However, the system is not a success and it is likely that at some point during the process your child may be adversely affected by it! That's why I take an active role in educating my child.

"Who is happy in solitude is either a beast or a god." A man who loves solitude is either a beast or an angel, but appears to be a half-truth. Love to be isolated is in fact a symptom of the bestial nature of a person, but can rarely be a sign of piety, unless it is a part of the renunciation of the world to higher spiritual meditation. The solitude has a broader implication, what people generally believe to have, an individual may feel lonely in a crowd, in the absence of affection. For a man without friends, the world can be a desert. The friendship helps the man first to disburden his heart and, second, to clear understanding. It helps us to ventilate the secret feelings, desires and frustrations, which, when deleted in the heart, cause melancholy. Feelings and emotions, if accumulated, 'eat' the heart and destroys the health, a friend assures an outlet for these suppressed emotions and gives us a way of catharsis. "Some people come into our lives and quickly go Some stay for a bit 'and leave footprints on your heart and we are never the same ..". What is a "best friend"? Almost everyone has one, and almost all are one. There is something of a best friend who can not be duplicated. Everyone has their own definition of what their best friend is like and what an impact he or she has done in their lives. Let's look at some of the more simple things that we take for granted when we think of our best friends. A best friend is a title held for the few and privileged. The term can not be thrown around freely. Not just anyone can be called your best friend. A best friend is to meet before qualifying and have many other great features to have the honor of holding such a prestigious title. Be a better friend than someone you've seen all day and raised. A best friend can be someone with whom you have known since childhood, but it can also be someone you've just met. The true definition of a best friend is someone who knows you deeply and would go through thick n thin. Friends increases happiness decreases because the intensity of pain. When you talk with others our ideas take shape better and everything becomes clear also arranged in order, whereas before, we've heard our thoughts were confused, confusing and vague. A good friend helps us improve our behavior, demeanor and avoid mistakes and follies, as a friendly advice is correct, so reliable and enjoyable at the same time. Be between the number of people who do not dispel the loneliness, the faces around 'a' are impersonal and cold like 'one' can see in the picture gallery, of course you can not establish any human contact with them. Similarly, speaking with a number of people is meaningless as the sounds produced by striking cymbals, no love or affection involved, that these very emotions give meaning and value to a conversation and this can only happen among friends . Solitude means lack of friends, rather than the absence of people. Friendship can be likened to a tapestry, a tapestry of beautiful designs can be seen clearly only when the material is explained and disseminated. Similarly, the ideas of man to acquire a clear form only when they are converted to words heard from a trusted friend. Unexpressed thoughts lie in a state of perplexity in the mind, just as the figures of a tapestry that is packaged. Discussion with a friend clarifies things. Speaking outside his own ideas even a deaf friend who is unable to provide advice or guidance sharpens the mind, because this friend is like a stone for the mind of man is like a razor, like a stone is not in him strong, but it serves to sharpen the knife or razor. Likewise, the friend can be boring, but still talking to him / her, sharpens the intellect. Often people make terrible mistakes, because they have no true friends to bring them to awareness of what they are doing, and consequently suffer from loss of prosperity and reputation. These people lack self-knowledge, are like men who look in the mirror, but are not able to really see how they, and others have to tell them what they really are. These people are in dire need of a true friend and the critics punctual and sincere encouragement will give them a proper guidance. There are two dangers for advice on various different people, one is that a man will not receive a fair and unbiased advice, but will have some personal ends in view, and his advice will be perverted to meet those goals. It 's just a sincere and reliable friend, who will give disinterested advice, keeping in mind only the interests of his friend who asked for it. The other danger is that the board may in part be useful and some harmful, even if given with the best intentions can go wrong. Why would a person who does not know the nature of a man can not give advice to him, which is fully positive, as he is taking things in perspective. Often in search of good friends we made terrible mistakes, relying on an unreliable person. But every person can not be judged in the same criterion as different people react differently to the same set of circumstances. hasty opinions about all they can prove otherwise in the long run, as always, appearances are deceptive. Some people have a habit of changing weekly or friends for two weeks after meeting someone and exchange a few words, you can claim friendship with anyone. Once you call someone a 'friend' then all his merits and demerits should be accepted with all my heart. Finally, we agree with the same proverbial "A friend in need is a friend indeed." DA EMMA ALAM