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 The newsletter from the NBCDI, addresses multiple topics that all relate into bettering the lives of all black children, and their families. The newsletter provides black history moments/ key points for the entire year, as well as suggestions on how to become a better early childhood educator.  

I also subscribed to receive notifications from the Commission in Jamaica, for Early Childhood Education. There is one portion of this site that addresses caring tips, parenting tips, and one that caught my attention, dealing with parental stress factors. This section caught my attention, because after taking a trip to the wonderful island of Jamaica; it touched me to see how important education is to their communities, and society. It was really moving to visit the schools and see how polite the children were, and how they so much enjoyed being in their educational environment. The teacher there, in Jamaica, explained how they did not have many schools within their communities, and that the children only went for half a day, either in the morning, or the evening, based on the family needs, farm work, house work; the children would do when not in school. She explained how some families had problems with this because if their child was very young, they could not stay home, unattended, by themselves, but the parents still had to figure out a way to work and provide a healthy way of living for their family. When speaking to the educators in Jamaica, I did not associate those stress factors with the stresses within the United States, However, after reading the page on the site for the Commission, and returning back to work, it is very evident to see that our parents face stress factors, that are not identical to those parents in Jamaica, but our families experience them just as well, just in a different nature.

Resources

Early Childhood Commission, Government of Jamaica.  http://www.ecc.gov.jm

National  Black Child Development Institute .  http://nbcdi.org