syrian's excuse me doc film looks at the former the fear is of children and the importance of learning at an early age there's of course always more on the web site to dip into college you can also follow us on social media i'm sorry kelly interland thanks for watching. the lowly. people have to say 1st to us. that's why i listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d w. welcome

to our movie about early childhood education early judd who did you question is very important. many reasons for this the 1st all by all right but enough of that for the real take it from here if you kept it up much longer we totally would have lost it and chances are we would have got me back to the point is beginnings matter . like a basketball team who doesn't play deep into the whole post. or an architect who says forget the blueprint let's just start building. or stand up comics who skips the setup and goes right to the punch line 20.

but the place beginnings matter most in life is well life. babies in the beginnings of humanity grew up in these very rich stand towns. not just mothers but fathers grandmothers friends cousins and they were all there all the time with the children. settled in that kind of context in that country village caring for children teaching them just getting the work on the hill that they all took place at the same time. the but of course the world that we live in now is a very very different world from the being the. parents are increasingly having to raise kids on their own and they are also having to do it while the pov to warm in order to earn enough to even support a family not all. people now have come to understand the use

of these early childhood years for reasons of brain development resource now you know are more important than anything else. in the central problem is that our society has a diminished capacity to support groups to do work which aside expects them and needs them to. wire society which. is a bit of a mystery. here's a minimum that most folks don't know. these are our children our culture ignore and. just going on as if it's going to correct itself that's a task for a traffic stop. so welcome to our movie about early childhood

education if we do our job by the time we're done you will use this baby and the world just a little bit differently because this is internet suppose a it's a wake up call to start seeing early childhood to what it means to a grownup issue a game changer to start seeing it as no small matter in the league. above. her. head. because it. does what do you think you do it's our house if you can't get a diagram of the. planet this is how you do it your house. my name is rachel jenny she i am kind and i and i and you have a i don't have your title i will be leaving. here and i'm pretty new to school and

take your summer and we're in the yellow ground brianna tell me how she learned how to keep it safer how did you start. with your mom touch you know how to touch you today were to her unit about how we mark. your study develop this idea that you have this computer inside of your head that you can't see any controls i'm reading about you. because of you because you know he really. loves kids his age are far more capable than you and i would never condemn credit card so when you give them the materials and you can them some knowledge they're able to run with it ok we're going to say every employer to discussion number one why do we start talking learning i don't know is it the. status quo.

the way school. day you were born you started to do what. you think when you. learned. babies are born learning. there is a brain ready to learn and it's ready to learn especially from other people social brain. or work on imitation i think helped show that. i remember sitting in front of this 42 minute old baby who had never seen a tongue before i poked out my tongue at her and she responded tongue protrusion back i opened and closed my mouth she watched my lips move and responded by opening closing her mouth says

a phenomenal thing the baby had never seen her own face but yet she was able to connect her own body to my body and it was a dramatic demonstration to me that we are born learning. for some 2000 years people thought that babies and young children were sort of defective grownups so they defined babies you know children in terms of all the things that they were missing so they were there were russian on they weren't even century they couldn't understand the relationship between cause and effect or take the perspective of another person the picture was that there really wasn't very much that was going on until children got to be about the age that you went to school. here reading up close the curtain. of battle 35 years ago me we started really changing our view all right so we're just going to have actually written between the puppet now. our right that was the helpful guy was in there one thing that happened is that we got new technologies that actually let us

study babies in the way. i read and write a book that completely revolutionize our picture about what makes you know children like. this is very very we're the 1st in the world to put be in every gene machine it's perfectly safe and noninvasive like a stethoscope for the brain just innocently place in the car seat is right away on the i mean on the by you i mean magneto once a philosophy allows you to measure the firing of the neurons in the brain as a child is doing something like listening to a word to little monkeys high up in the trees or interacting with mom i heard one of mine. as you can see you were. mormons trying to they were getting very very good attention on the part of the let's look at right front for the 1st

time in history we can see what's happening in the baby's brain before they can talk back to us i think still sound. before how long is and i feel what we found is that children learn more and more earlier than anyone ever expected babies are doing something remarkable without anybody knowing it's going on the baby brain is actually taking statistics as they listen to us talk they don't know words yet but they can tell the frequency of themselves. while you're talking to the baby the baby's brain is reacting trying to get ready to talk back to you. and people have the tendency to think there's nothing going on there what's going on up there is rocket science. in fact the 1st 3 years of life are like a big bang for the brain and explosion of 86000000000 neurons connecting to. each other over a 1000000 times a 2nd as babies interact with the world and the people around them these

connections form pathways that wire together different parts of the brain so many pathways that starting around age 3 the brain hits the brakes and kicks in to use it or lose it know there's this kind of inflection point where the connections that have been used a lot get to be stronger and stronger the connections that are used disappear they're pruned as people and whether or not the connection is strengthened or dies back is experienced depending right it's based on our experiences so literally our experiences shape our brains our brains grow faster during the 1st 5 years of life than they ever will again and the older we get the harder it is to change what's there this is why the surly period is so important if you knew the right experience or if you just rocked the circuits then you have some weekend foundation

in your brain is going to have to deal with for the rest of your life. so what has the biggest impact on how well the brain gets wired. that it's not flash cards or fancy apps that build a healthy brain it's every day back and forth interactions with loving supportive adults school is basically anywhere with any more on average favorite game the other legs. social interaction is the range of food for the child healthy development. i believe he does every day long us with a child are actually learning moments of the trial the flare ups. ground put you back on. you given your kids so this really raises the stakes on

what we provide for children in the earliest years of life if we don't get that right then from then on we're basically fixing something that's broken. because. the good news is we know what kids need to cry. the bad news we're making it harder and harder for parents to give it to them. this is the portrayed of a very important brian she is the wife the mother of america her job is to make a home the american of the day it is perhaps the most important job in the world. so we have all of this research from social scientists from neuroscientists telling us why it's so important to invest in young children from birth to 5 at the same time we have these all fashion notions around the role of women why should a baby be anywhere but with a mom until she's 3 or 5. families look very very

different than a day 30405020 years ago not that long ago a high school diploma good attitude was enough to get you would job but one salary could support one family with a couple of kids today there are so many families where both parents have to work if there's only one parent that parent is working more when they are in the workforce more women are in the workforce that have children under the age of 5. the demands of work are radically different the unpredictable work hours that families have to navigate for example you may or may not live close to your family and so that creates a challenge parents need to support this is not a luxury. you pretend that it's ozzie and harriet that is and you know there's someone who's taking care of the big one who's taking care of these.

i think they're all. hey. hey. i'm cooking. i don't want to go besler. i just stand like $10.00 a day playing the lottery to wish i could be. a start of a 1000000 what is a. sending her to a daycare center was not something i wanted to do for at least a year. but we're at a home where both of us have to work in order to survive and. we have to work this year that is. it's not like that's the smorgasbord of childcare out there. we were lucky to finally found. it was

a scramble like we're going to childcare facilities every day to vail ability is slim to none. really and we have a few options despite p.j. ratio despite the class size they all cost. of course it's going to require us to basically scale back some of our spending in appropriate summer savings you know holding all that. money but i don't know how people do it i really don't see that changing cover human change. sharky. so tomorrow you have to go to school ok home alone or back stronger oh. no one's going to love your child the way you do nobody's going to care for your child the way you well. but i'm looking for the closest thing to it.

and the. soesilo hostile to the sea. fish. so for us to show not ready for the shoot to. kill. this is. still missing baby.

with the most critical point a kid like this right now to write a book 8 it's right now after 12 years right now but i want to tell you that the investment you do in that young push from the very beginning gives you the best possibility of scaling this thing and be of such just because of the ending and this will pay off dividends for this country in a way that nothing else will. shake gattis is about as close to living proof of that as you can get gattis is the exact. director of the flat push y.m.c.a. in brooklyn. he also happens to be one of the subjects of a landmark early learning study that's been tracking him for more than 40 years the advice of darien project launched in 1972 by researchers in chapel hill north carolina a study was designed to examine the long term impact of full day high quality early care and education on low income children like shay i started when i was 3 months

old i do have vivid memories and i remember so games polls still scope of things which today i can't stop playing possibles be quite honest. wholesomeness in the 4 and a half decades in the results of the study are striking as a group gaddis and his former classmates are healthier they're better educated they make more money and they're less likely to have committed a crime and then a group of similar kids the study also tracked who didn't attend the program mom she had she was 15 so my grandparents raised me from birth neither one of them had 3rd grade education couldn't read or write and so from my own experience here's a child or grow up with limited resources good was able to attain love while playing field in a classroom if i don't have to have a certain program probably when i have that chance. we have

a chance of intergenerational poverty today in this country you're born into poverty odds are you're going to end up as an adult and high quality early childhood education that's a strong possibility breaking that cycle abas a dairy and is one of several long term studies that show when it comes to children their earlier we invest the bigger the payoff for society compared to all the things then we do for the rest of their life we are writing checks that are so much more expensive than what it would have been had we invested when they were little and put the. value in not having to retain a child you can put a dollar value on the health care implications long term for the dollar value of not needing special ed you can put a dollar value on the child graduate high school getting a better job and not paying taxes in particular you can put our values on the cost of crime which you won't find a better public return than investing in early childhood education.

early brain infrastructure should be taken as seriously as other forms of infrastructure as highways and bridges and airports and those sorts of things this is her work force c.e.o.'s of big corporations they need young employees but play well with others they don't want just smart people they really want people to have good un-bush more skills good social judgment and so we have to really attend to the development of these parts of the brain that allows us to play in the sandbox.

hi we are in my own families through our painting program is free and is for moms to have babies they can attend a program with the babies almost back of on stay is a change generation program that partners parent education about child development with her early childhood education for little 10 to 3. on the starting percent of people in waco in poverty there's that codes and since the strikes in waco are one in 4 children go hungry. for. the one year old that that house one year he doesn't know how to set up. and we weren't shot with that kid really go out and you can't say anything. because that was. you can work with children until you're blue in the face but if the hum environment is also not transformed the child's opportunities for success will be limited. we've been seeing the impacts of early childhood versity on health on behavior on

life outcomes for a very very very long time but what we now know is the mechanism we know how early adversity leads to all of these different negative outcomes. and that is what we now understand to be toxic stress. to understand toxic stress you gotta understand the stress response system itself the stress response system is this amazing evolutionary system that was designed to save our lives and the folks who did not give all the stress response their god they got. so let's imagine you're a one year old in prehistoric time you've just woken up from your nap you're hungry and you're lowering cost really needs changing so you step outside the community and nobody's there instinctively you know something's wrong without adults there to care for you you're totally helpless and that's when your stress response system

kicks into gear immediately what happens is that our brain sends a signal to release stress hormones so we would leave adrenaline and cortisol and these hormones activate a whole slew of changes in our brains and bodies our heart starts to pound our pupils dilate our airways and the brain tells you you're managing your situation you need to do whatever it takes to protect yourself so you do the one thing you can to tell the world you need help. and the dad grandma grandma comes along with your stress response system powers down and you know everything's going to be ok. fast forward 40000 years. stress is still a part of everyday life for babies and young children even if some of the causes are a little bit different. the

stress response involved to switch on immediately in the face of a threat now is the fact that i'm very head. but it's the comforting presence of caring adults that teaches the brain to switch it off when the threat is passed we're just talking about being responsive just loving a child see that when she sends out a signal that she's distressed or scared she can count on the fact that a caregiver is going to be there in some way to help address that situation. but what if the stress and a young child's life never stocks violence in the home or in the neighborhood parental drug addiction incarceration are mental health problems severe neglect or abuse and what if the adults around that child don't or can't help them cope with it when children are experiencing situations of fear and adversity and they do not

have the buffering care giver continued to pump out high levels of adrenaline and cortisol and here's the problem if you have stress hormones things over to actually start to disrupt the developing brain circuits and then we start to see the health problems that are associated with toxic stress. toxic stress takes direct aim at the prefrontal cortex undermining of trials ability to concentrate control their emotions or get along with others a biological problem that becomes a behavioral one when a child gets to school the brain basically goes on fight or flight mode. so when they walk into a classroom they continue to respond as if they're in a stressful dangerous unpredictable environment but. to a teacher that child looks like they're just mistaking that's a problem child but the damage from toxic stress goes beyond the developing brain

they are also facts on metabolism on the mune system on the cardiovascular system with profound consequences for physical health and mental health when those markers are set in childhood they impact the way our bodies work for the rest of our lives . kids growing up in low income families are especially vulnerable to toxic stress today that's nearly half the children under 6 in america so when i think about toxic stress i think about how our cascades day electricity bill can be paid your lights go out you can put things on the table everybody's unhappy after wow adults are relating in certain ways but on healthy children are relating in certain ways that on healthy you're living in a community that's doing things that might help you and all of it began to have to have impact on a 5 year old so this is actually argues for why we shouldn't be synching just about

the children because children live in families we cannot transform the lives of children we don't transform the lives of their parents as well. as part of helping families make that shift is helping them create a dream and a goal and then think about what are the steps that i need to do in order to make that you know reality. knew. that was working and then a chicken plans for like 78 years working on the 2 plans. my 1st husband feels slight be in jail a lot of times and i feel like to you care my kids from myself so that's what the struggle of me to go to both jobs i was born to work at 12 midnight get up to 6 and then go to house pick of the babies get him dressed for school drop out of school and then go to my 2nd job 8 in the morning get a 5 by some fast forward take them to the bed like around $637.00 almost

and then he like it they don't they want to be outside what it's going and then having 4 and i will sell sauce that i couldn't do it i work in the restaurant we're going to. find you. now it's 30 years old. and he and then i was one day on the street and these girls were passing flyers they tell me not is that a good program was it they could help you out if you want to finish she'd be indicative of the baby for free and they teach you how to be with the kids so i was like yes this is my fertility right there we're going to talk about the brain when you have to challenge his team we need an environment his brain is going to how can we accept side the brain seeing into our children read into our children talking to our children i'm a mom for 4 kids and i thought i was the best long i know how to take care of me

kids know what is going to tell me what to do or how to do it right but no learned a lot of stuff from them i couldn't believe it. and then my sorry ass ume program on here because now he's turned around when he hears the sounds. are all of the eating bad lard on a case shared i don't they you have to lose hope is that can do you love them and you leave you there we find some quote so that teachers are like help you. remember the. you know what it is to what i love about have on say is their early childhood education is forward thinking if they want our child to succeed in the future but the e.s.l. ged classes and workforce development training is the here now so i'm going to gain the skills that i need to lift my family out of poverty this morning morning we're going to continue working on sunday and we also want to continue working on some of

your writing with your constructive response is always in my dreams i want to be a c and they said of a nurse assistance i mean you don't get paid a lot but at least try to start somewhere this program changed my life i didn't. i have a better job i can deal with my sons the child in the school i learned to be a better mom i'm going to understand my children and to be respectful to my kids they need to be as a. dream begin my marriage you believe me to keep all these things saying. oh they do for me. just as i wish when they know that mars like me have just come to.

live in the city and we didn't do it we are going to finish right. we can be a better fit a better mom. but this is her. i'm going to do it because i wanted to see that. they can do. it in. the big fight of the money. to be. the big winner. here come with me guys i found a really great spot where i think we're going to be able to find a lot of really cool but. we're going to try to find bugs we're going to find out what kind of other. well hold on our job is to find out what kind of bug it is so we can bring it into the yellow room and. we're going to show you're totally right

and we're going to act as a bug expert. so what does teaching and instruction and learning look like in a high quality program the world. looks like. why don't think it's put because it doesn't feel like. grab a book grab one of the books like why because we can look at them i think of some kind of you know high quality program you don't see a little kid sitting at desks you don't see a teacher in front of a room talking and talking and talking to a bunch of kids in the back of the room. that's. 2 what kind of a. they get it. looks like nothing is ever great. you want to have a child who's in an environment where there's

a lot of play and there's a lot of villainy to explore and you also need to have an adult there who's doing the scaffolding the line we think he does in our class is what hank did. you see the teacher encouraging the children to explore and understand and learn from whatever it is they're doing i love it you know and headlines around them a really nice observation and it's not just a replay but it looks a long one because everyone's having how do you think they're out there. and i let's see what if that is. what you think is going to say young chick and you know take care of it and that director or you can say the words reach why don't we found out it was a different kind of a i don't have a green man to say. well let's look at a picture maybe let's look at one look at his ranch away well look at a great man who made it and we'll see which one. we can measure things like teacher ratios whether or not a teacher had a b.a. in a number of those are all very important what really makes a huge difference in

a child's life is how the child and teacher interact with. this let me just take care of it. so what happened today. voicing doubts joe it's not have race we looked it up. but it's. a little bit of what it is that here i think these children will be lifelong learned mr newton has fled the scene in them they were always out of a thirst for knowledge this is a place where they can make it a little afraid as are a lot of great dancers. and one of the things that really can education providers fight against constantly is the idea that they're just babysitting. notion

babysitting is adequate it's a big piece of it's brain building early childhood educators are scientists their emotional supporters they are family advocates they're an educator their health care provider they're also a party planner because you have to keep children busy and occupied and engaged and you have to keep 20 of them you know i often tell people to think about their child's 2 year old birthday but it doesn't end after a couple of hours and they all come back the next day and the next. day the race closely. they are doing the work that will really fundamentally make a difference for the outcomes of these young children i want to be there miss honey i want to be the one that's like. that you can do anything this is possible like when they reflect on. their preschool experience i want them to have this weird memory of this person that may or may not have existed they let them do things that

they don't quite remember when they remember being really cool and it's weird to think that i'm not going to have that impact and. we're. a teacher and. it's all of us out that had 2nd jobs last year. all of us really child a teacher something like under 3. weeks as a free school teacher my basic things i have said this is what i like work chaps girls are they're going to be where i am but you shut down it's the most important time we had a supplementary incomes we had a chair like i'm not gonna lie i've been here 2 extra years because i make excuses . today we have higher expectations than we've ever had of what childcare teachers can and should accomplish. but we are

placing those expectations on the back of a workforce that is returning carmody level wages. in this country the typical childcare teacher's wages fall below those of the people who take care of our dogs who park our cars to make our drinks. childcare teachers earn in the bottom 3 to 5 percent of the national wage scale they've been at the bottom for the past 25 years and they haven't budged. it's not only unfair from an economic point of view it's down right stupid. right. it's so. popular. it's called. if there's one core

message about development it's that it is cumulative and even though it gets harder to change brain structures hard. change behavior as children grow up the door is always open well for an integer it's the investment from adults that very distinctively human combination of caring for children and teaching them at the same time just in our everyday activity that really and literally makes us human push will. tell you all the concerns and i think everybody when it comes to their children has this feeling this is the most important thing in the world what could possibly be more important that means that it doesn't need to be fixed the way lives it doesn't need to be replaced scuse me mr know what all this. was really. 'd hard part is to get people to realise that that's not just true

about my children it's true about your children and the children of the people down the block and the children of the people who don't look like us who aren't in the same part of the city or are in the same part of the state or for that matter are in the same part of the world. around. the. light i just want to thank i call community home part 5 years. in the land of teaching i am going back to grad school but you advantage man after.

3 and i can't thank my great. thing. every time i hear somebody talk about how worried about the future of america they're worried about where we're going to be 25 years from now in terms of the outlook for x. and then they're not really interested in investing in early childhood and i am going to slap your forehead like what are you thinking how are we going to get all that foundation for all the things we want to see in society is laden with various terrors. like great lives but in that let's just say that's static no matter what we're talking about. that answer to help solve the problem. problem our. we have a deeper understanding of how important this are away. and once you know that you can't just put there that if you. turn out money.

in the onion in my 2 hands. you want to tell a. very hollow answer the challenge that we have is that people although we can't afford the stuff from cost too much money people fail to ask is how much are we paying as a society because we're not putting those investments up front we need leaders in washington we need leaders in every community to step up and say no this 1st this is our priority every child should have access to high quality early education well that's a 2015 at graduation ceremony where talented man. if we get it done at the very basic level we have missed an enormous opportunity at the more egregious level we have failed young children and failed their families and failed to follow through on the promise of the american dream. and.

thanks. we get this right now. to magically different luck early learning is not a panacea to fix everything in society but what it can do is deeply. we are and precipices such an amazing time. unlocking the secrets of the brain 1st . we never had a way to look into a baby's brain before. there are ways to build environments to optimize the way in which people grow. that's what we call a reach environment for children whatever we want to college childcare preschool home we have to do it every.

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