Kids are our Future
Yesterday Paula Bennett, National’s early childhood education spokesperson, and I visited Childcare centres and Kindergartens around Levin.
Paula has done well to expose the Governments hoax of 20 hours ‘free’ childcare for 3 and 4 year olds and is currently working hard on National’s policy for early childhood education.
Some of the discussion was unfortunately centred around escalating child abuse and the importance of young parents having access to positive parenting, either from sharing with other parents, or from parenting programmes.
As a parent of young children I really enjoyed the visits to see first hand how these early childhood facilities care for our kids and work hard to extend their growth and development.