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By Vanessa
Rasmussen, © 2004, All rights reserved.
Website: http://www.startingadaycarecenter.com
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What
a parent really wants is for their child
to excel in various walks of life. They
all wish for smart, well-educated children
who enjoy learning. While books and pencils
are essential to setting a proper foundation
for growing education, computers can offer
simulating interaction. Software is available
for different age groups and is interactive,
fun and can also act as a tutorial alternative.
Although it is not recommended that children
rely solely on the computer as a teaching
tool, using educational computer software
as a supplement can be beneficial.
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Given below is
a list of popular education software:
- Reader Rabbit
Playtime for Baby and Toddler by The Learning
Company - It helps in discovering colors,
shapes, animals, letters and numbers.
- JumpStart
Advanced Preschool by Knowledge Adventure
- It provides interactive game play tailored
to each child's individual learning style.
- Baby Matters
by Parenting Solutions Inc. - It helps in
recording your baby's milestones and medical
information
- Monkey Math
- It has nine math activities with Marvin
the Monkey! Addition, subtraction, fractions,
number sequence, money, picture graphs and
story graphs.
- LittleFingers
Classroom - It has eight educational lessons
for children in grade 3 covering money, introduction
to fractions, homonyms, plural nouns, spelling,
place value and two math activities.
- Fisher Price
Ready for School Toddler - Kids learn about
numbers, letters, colors, music and more.
Toddlers hit keys to have fun and then learn
to use the mouse.
- Winnie the
Pooh Baby - This CD lets babies, ages 9-24
months, explore and discover without lengthy
instructions. Parents act as the guide using
the mouse while children touch the keyboard
to make things happen.
- 4 CD set of
Britannica Head Start, Britannica Math Club,
Britannica Reading club 1 & 2 and Lion
and Mouse - This is 4 CD set for ages 3-6
brought to you by Encyclopedia Britannica.
Given below is
a list of popular education software:
- ChildcareWare
- Offers a daycare management software program
that will help with record keeping, storing
child, parent, and pickup person information,
photos, childcare rates, enroll dates, immunization
histories, and even parent wishes, diets,
allergies, and more.
- Childcare
Administrator - It is a fully integrated Windows
system specifically designed to meet the administrative
needs of child care centers.
- Childcare
for Windows - This is a record keeping tool
for childcare providers. Besides the many
skills required in caring for children, the
childcare provider must also keep accurate,
detailed records necessary for yearly tax
preparation.
- Cybersitter
- It is a parental control package which covers
30 categories including drugs, sex, and violence
and hacking.
- Lullaby Management
- Lullaby Management, by Columbia Basin Edu-care
offers a complete program for day care with
everything from individual child information
and pictures to built-in tax expenses and
mileage forms!
- Net Nanny
5.0 -It helps in preventing access to inappropriate
sites, revealing private information, limit
the amount of time your children spend online
and generally control their entire Internet
experience.
Copyright
2001, 2004. All rights reserved. Any reproduction
of this article in whole or in part without
written or verbal permission is strictly prohibited.
For information about reprinting this article,
contact the copyright owner: Vanessa Rasmussen,
Ph.D, Starting a Day Care Center, http://www.startingadaycarecenter.com.
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