Welcome to the first of our weekly Positive Parenting blog posts! Here at Acornkids, we have an absolute passion for children. We love to celebrate your little ones and share in the experiences as they grow and learn every single day. So please feel free to comment and share stories of your own below. To kick off our Positive Parenting blog, I’d like to tackle a question that pops into every parent’s head (at least once if not a million times) before taking the next really exciting yet equally terrifying milestone of ‘Big School’.  “What can I, as a parent, do to make sure that my kids have the very best education?”  You see, preparing your kids for school is so much more than having them academically ready. Teachers are here to teach them the academics, parents are here to teach them that and everything in between! In fact, there are four main areas of development that kids need to master before stepping into their first ...

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