The value that hearing such stories has for early childhood professionals, for the public, and for policymakers and government officials I feel is that you get to hear things on a personal level. It is no longer someone wrote this, or here is another policy we need to pass it becomes personal when you hear a parents story of how an early childhood program has changed their lives. Every year we have our parents write how our program has helped them with their child and what changes they have seen in their child since they started the program and we share this info with our steering committee and with state officials. It also helps them understand the importance of keeping these programs in place for the children and families.
My opinion regarding why or why not parent/family involvement is an essential system element for all strands of service in the early childhood field is that parents need to be very involved in what their children are doing at school, if not the child feels you don't care and the teacher thinks you have no interest. Parent involvement is extremely essential it helps in the child's development.
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