{"id":2446,"date":"2011-05-29T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2011-05-29T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:37:28","slug":"advocating-for-preschool-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/advocating-for-preschool-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocating for Preschool Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how important it is to offer quality preschool resources and early literacy programs\u00a0 in our libraries,\u00a0 but I sometimes struggle with the best ways to help others understand <strong><em>WHY<\/em><\/strong> it is so important. I came across this video, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GbSp88PBe9E\" target=\"_blank\">Change the First Five Years and You Change the World<\/a>,&#8221; and think it would be great as an introduction to a presentation on early literacy or as a discussion starter in a parents&#8217; group.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GbSp88PBe9E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GbSp88PBe9E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ounceofprevention.org\/home\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Ounce of Protection Fund<\/a>, an organization working to give children in poverty the best chance for success in school and in life by advocating for the highest quality care and education from birth to age five, this video clearly illustrates the positive impact which can be made in the lives of young children by caring adults.<\/p>\n<p>What methods do <em><strong>you<\/strong><\/em> use to advocate for our youngest users?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how important it is to offer quality preschool resources and early literacy programs\u00a0 in our libraries,\u00a0 but I sometimes struggle with the best ways to help others understand WHY it is so important. I came across this video, &#8220;Change the First Five Years and You Change the World,&#8221; and think it would be great as an introduction to a presentation on early literacy or as a discussion starter in a parents&#8217; group. Put together by The Ounce of Protection Fund, an organization working to give children in poverty the best chance for success in school and in life by advocating for the highest quality care and education from birth to age five, this video clearly illustrates the positive impact which can be made in the lives of young children by caring adults. What methods do you use to advocate for our youngest users?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[144,96,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-early-literacy","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}