ד"ר אורנה דובדבני

I'm Orna Douvdevany, teacher, mother of 5, and grandmother. I have been an educator for 30 years, with a Ph.D in science education, qualified in corrective teaching and learning disabilities evaluation. In the last few years, I'm pedagogical advisor in early childhood science centers.

I believe the home has a key function in education and laying the foundations to a child's success. Parents are the children's first teachers and role models.
Children's social and academic success depends on language. Children learn their mother tongue from their family at home.
A baby learning to talk uses partial words, and disrupts words not yet known or pronounceable.
Every parent is drawn to this process, paying attention to each word and learning its meaning.
We enjoy repeating our baby's language, feeling certain we'll never forget its magic.
I know I've forgotten. I forgot most of my five children's speech-treasures, and some of my grand-children's who started talking only recently.
Since I regret forgetting, I prepared a speech journal so I'll never forget my grandchildren's future words.
So their parents never forget.
So no parent ever forgets.