{"id":150,"date":"2011-08-16T00:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-08-16T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T04:30:43","slug":"its-never-too-early-to-start-teaching-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2011\/08\/16\/its-never-too-early-to-start-teaching-our-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s never too early to start teaching our kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2011\/08\/never_early.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-159\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2011\/08\/never_early.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2011\/08\/never_early.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2011\/08\/never_early-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>An article on the importance of children&#8217;s first years of life has been published in <em>The Australian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Professor Frank Oberklaid, director of the Centre for Community Child Health says, &#8220;If children are behind the eight ball when  they start school, it&#8217;s too late.They  spend the rest  of their school years trying to catch up, and many  never do. We know  absolutely that learning starts at birth. The first  five years before  kids get to school are probably the most important  years in terms of  education. But we&#8217;re still having a debate about  access and quality of  childcare. It&#8217;s crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See the article, <a title=\"It's never too early to start teaching our kids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/its-never-too-early-to-start-teaching-our-kids\/story-fn59niix-1226113616258\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;It&#8217;s never too early to start teaching our kids&#8217;,<\/a> <em>The Australian<\/em>, Saturday 13 August, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the importance of children&#8217;s first years of life has been published in The Australian. In the article, director of the Centre for Community Child Health, Professor Frank Oberklaid says, &#8216;We know absolutely that learning starts at birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}