FAQ Number 3

Which schooling yields the highest return on investment for your child?

Based upon what scientists now know about the windows of rapid psychological growth that occur in the brains of young children, the most important education your child will receive is in the first 5 years of life. These years will make an indelible mark on your child’s beliefs about themselves, and the world around them as well as the virtues, skills for conflict resolution, decision making and goal setting and love of learning that will enable them to attain success in whatever they choose in life. More so than any other educational experience, these years are the foundation of success.

When you look at your child, are you sometimes astonished that they have no fear of approaching strangers, or that they will stand up on a chair and sing with reckless abandon? Granted, there is socially acceptable behavior and not accepted behavior that we want children to exhibit, but embarrassment and fear have no place here. We want children to behave in a socially acceptable manner, but at the same time to retain their creativity and passion for life and living it to its fullest. How your child is treated now will very much determine your child’s future success (and the amount of therapy needed or not). How your child’s brain wires itself now, will very much determine their belief in themselves, desire to take risks, passion for life, and determination to achieve their goals, and this wiring takes place before the age of 5. New studies show that the brain is plastic through out life, but that the brain must optimally develop in the first five years through proper environment and nutrients and that the wiring your child accepts regarding his beliefs about himself, the world and his place in it are very hard to undo later in life. So, your child’s education and environment in the first five years will set the stage for what they achieve in life.