Unlimited Resources in Poverty Research

For this week's blog assignment, I chose option 2, which reads:

• Imagine that you possess the means and the knowledge to conduct research studies about any topic in the early childhood field. Imagine further that you are not restricted by the reality of the present. Imagine that your study will make a major positive contribution to the well-being of children and/or their families. What topic would you choose? What can you imagine the positive contribution(s) would be?

If I had the ability to conduct any research of any topic, it would have to be research in Poverty and its' effects on young children and early learning and development. In this research, I would provide families suffering from the epidemic of poverty useful resources and economic benefits to assist in the beginning stages of providing adequate living and quality early childcare for their children. I could only imagine positive contributions would be that these young children would benefit from the results of this research. I would also hope that the families participating in this research would 'pay it forward' and help to provide other families, living in poverty, similar, if not, the same opportunities provided to them. Children involved in this research would be the opportunity to learn and develop their early learning abilities in adequate learning environments with well trained and qualified teachers. They would have exposure to and benefit from governmental programs such as School Readiness, to help minimize the educational and language gap affecting our young children today.