ECCE and It's Importance

The international website that I have been researching and gathering resources from is www.earlychildhoodireland.com .  The website has given me perspective on the belief that no matter where children are from they need learning that is specific to his or her individual needs. I found that reading the section about involving fathers was particularly relevant to my current professional development because where I teach there are extremely many more single parent house-holds that are run by the mother.  The section of the website showed the importance of having both parents involved in her child’s life. 
There is an interesting program that has been designed in Ireland to have children between the ages of 3 years, 3 months to 4 years, 4 months where children receive free, quality Pre-K education.  It is called ECCE Year, which stands for Early Childhood and Care Year.  The importance of finding out that more and more countries in Europe are providing this education for early childhood, but it shows a greater need for me to see children in the United States need this year.  This information is very pivotal to the relevance to the three fields of economists, neuroscientists, and politicians because the idea of having quality early childcare and education before primary school is important because research from each of these fields have shown important impacts that early childhood education makes on a child’s life.   
Another big insight that was made to me through the website is that it is so important how having a child placed in a early childhood educational setting provides the child readiness in  primary school, which makes for an easier transition for  the child socially, academically, and emotionally.  This also takes stress off of parents when their child is able to know what to expect when he or she begins school.