Word: preschooling
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...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...
Field, 38, started the Wiggles a few years after he left the platinum-selling rock band the Cockroaches in 1988. He, Cook, 41, and Page, 30, recorded a few children's songs for fun while in college together. They were three of just a handful of men studying preschool education, which they chose because teaching toddlers wouldn't require them to stick to a curriculum...
...than he did. For a while we started referring to him, when he wasn't around, as "Dumbo," or "the Brainiac." Our friends, whose kids got somewhere in the 80s, all assured us the test didn't mean a thing, except that he's not going to that fancy preschool. But once someone has come out and said it, it's hard to shake the notion that your kid might in fact not be bright. And it's easy to slide from "might not be bright" to developmentally delayed and then into researching special schools on the Internet and talking...
...WHITMAN When a headhunter begged her to interview at a fledgling dotcom, Whitman, then an executive at Hasbro's preschool division, at first declined. But she reconsidered and within a couple of years turned EBAY into the most successful pure Internet company while making herself the first woman Internet billionaire. Whitman, 44, has made eBay--with more merchandise than ever, including $1 billion a year in auto sales and 37 million users worldwide--a truly global marketplace...
...pressure could be taken off the mothers and fathers if there was better child care," says the University of Kent's Furedi. "But that isn't happening at the moment." He laments the situation in the U.K., which has the worst record in Europe for looking after preschool children, according to a recent survey by Britain's Daycare Trust. "We are going to end up like [those] societies in Spain and Portugal and Italy where women just aren't having children because they know it is impossible to have a kid and to work. As a society we are just...