Those early skills will be fine-tuned, expanded and honed over our lifetimes; but the basic building blocks of socialization begin to take shape while we are quite young. Interacting with other children and adults in a safe, structured and well-supervised daycare setting encourages children to develop critical social skills more quickly.
High-quality daycare centers offer children the following benefits:
All of these social skills will help your child transition to kindergarten successfully.
"Kindergarten teachers will tell you that the students who are ready to learn are those who come into school with good social and behavior-management skills," Linda Smith, executive director of the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, told Parents.com. "Young children ... learn best through doing the kinds of activities they find interesting – story time, talking to their teachers about stars, playing with blocks."
In other words, the kind of social learning that takes place every day at Horizon Education Centers.